Overview

This newly edited text of one of Shakespeare's most theatrically successful comedies offers a commentary and a critically aware introduction that discusses Shakespeare's social transformation of his source material. It rethinks the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its view of marriage, paying particular attention to the analysis of the play's minor characters, Allowing for the play's openness to re-interpretation 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.

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Author:   William Shakespeare ,  Sheldon P. Zitner
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford Paperbacks
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 12.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.00cm
Weight:   0.212kg
ISBN:  

9780192826206

ISBN 10:   0192826204
Pages:   223
Publication Date:   01 February 1994
Recommended Age:   From 0 to 1 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

"General introduction - ""Much Ado About Nothing"" and the Romantic comedies, date, sources, the title, place and setting, organizing the dramatis personae, lovers, brothers, gentlewomen, conspirators and others, plot construction, act, scene and pace, contrasts and links between scenes, local effects, stage history, from text to prompt-book, some problems of staging, some recent directions; textual introduction - ""staying"" and publication, setting the text, ""ghosts"", speech-prefixes, entrances and exits, the play in folio; editorial procedures - abbreviations and references."

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Sheldon P. Zitner is Professor Emeritus, Trinity College, University of Toronto. He has written extensively on Renaissance Literature, including a recent book-length study of All's Well That Ends Well (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989)

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