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: ABDO
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781602707665

In graphic novel format, presents William Shakespeare's comedy about mistaken identities, games, eavesdropping, and unrequited love.

Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader

Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader
Author: Deborah Cartmell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2018-02-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1474284396

This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Shakespearean comedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's rich stage and screen performance, looking closely at major contemporary performances, including Josie Rourke's film starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones at the Old Vic, and the RSC's recent rebranding of it as a sequel. Moving through to four new critical essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives, including contemporary directors' deployment of older actors within the lead roles, the play's relationship to Love's Labour's Lost, its presence on Youtube and the ways in which tales and ruses in the play belong to a wider concern with varieties of crime. The volume finishes with a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further research.

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!

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 Almost Nothing

Much Ado about Almost Nothing
Author: Hans Camenzind
Publisher: Hans Camenzind
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2007
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780615139951

A history of electricity and electronics, and how the electron at first bothered mankind, then gradually became useful, and now dominates our lives.

Much Ado About Murder

Much Ado About Murder
Author: Simon Hawke
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765308368

Fledgling playwright Will Shakespeare and Symington Smythe, ostler and would-be thespian, and are now firmly ensconced in their theater company . . . But due to the plague, all of London's theaters have been closed, its players now broke, forcing our intrepid duo to seek employment in other lines of work--Smythe smithing and Will poeting. Then a murder rocks all of London. Shakespeare and Smythe decide to solve the crime, but they must rely on their wits to survive both the conspiriacies and the cutthroat business of Elizabethan theater

Imogen Says Nothing

Imogen Says Nothing
Author: Aditi Brennan Kapil
Publisher: Samuel French , Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573707049

A revisionist comedy in verse and prose featuring Imogen, a character who only appears in the first folio of William Shakespeare's Much Adoe About Nothing, speaks no lines, and is probably a typo. A feminist hijacking of Shakespeare that investigates the voices that have been absented from our canon, and the consequences of cutting them.