The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing

The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-04-17
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780199536115

Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedict, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction. Paying particular attention to analysis of the play's minor characters, Sheldon P. Zitner discusses Shakespeare's transformation of his source material. He rethinks the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its view of marriage. Allowing for the play's openness to reinterpretation by successive generations of readers and performers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new views for the actor as much as for the critic.

Much Ado about Nothing

Much Ado about Nothing
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1999
Genre: Conspiracies
ISBN: 9780143104704

Leonato, a kindly, respectable nobleman, lives in the idyllic Italian town of Messina. Leonato shares his house with his lovely young daughter, Hero, his playful, clever niece, Beatrice, and his elderly brother, Antonio. -- from Sparknotes.

Five Great Comedies

Five Great Comedies
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2013-02-19
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0486113191

This inexpensive Dover edition brings together five of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, from the magic and mischief of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the rollicking farce of The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Much Ado About Nothing Companion

Much Ado About Nothing Companion
Author: BookCaps
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1621075915

Much Ado About Nothing is one of the greatest comedies ever written--but let's face it..if you don't understand it, then you are not alone. This annotated book includes a summary of each scene, an overview of themes and characters. It does not include the play. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

Much Ado about Nothing

Much Ado about Nothing
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2010
Genre: English drama
ISBN: 1438132034

Presents a collection of essays discussing historical aspects of William Shakespeare's comedy in which Beatrice and Benedick overcome the obstacles preventing their union and ultimately conceding to mutual love and respect for each other.

Much Ado About Nothing (2010 edition)

Much Ado About Nothing (2010 edition)
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-11-19
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780198328728

Much Ado About Nothing is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

Much Ado About Marriage

Much Ado About Marriage
Author: Karen Hawkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2010-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439187622

New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins’s first historical romance, originally titled ONE LUCKY LORD and written as Kim Bennett, has been rewritten to tie into both her "MacLeans" series and her new "Hurst Amulet" series. Fearless English earl Thomas Wentworth scoffs at failure, trusting in the legendary Wentworth luck to safeguard his spy mission to Scotland. But a single encounter with saucy Scotswoman Fia Maclean turns Thomas's mission topsy-turvy. All-too-innocently entangling him in his enemy's trap, the beautiful Fia gives Thomas no escape but to marry her. But Thomas doesn't know just what he's marrying into. With an ancient amulet in Fia's possession, she wields even more power than her sharp tongue and quick wit. Her cousin, Douglas Maclean stole the magical amulet from the White Witch, Maeve Hurst, and gave it to Fia for safekeeping. But now, with Fia in London with Thomas, the amulet falls into the hands of Queen Elizabeth. Thinking it will be safe in the queen's hands, Fia leaves it be and focuses on bedeviling her newly betrothed!