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This edition of one of Shakespeare's most delightful and theatrically successful comedies offers, along with a freshly edited text, a helpful and critical introduction and commentary. Paying particular attention in his introduction to analysis of the play's minor characters, Sheldon P. Zitner discusses Shakespeare's social transformation of his source material, rethinking the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its ruefully optimistic view of marriage. Interpretations are advanced less because they are arguable than because they are actable. Allowing for the play's openness to re-interpretation by successive generations of readers and performers, the editor provides a socially analytic stage history. Full notes and commentary continue previous editors' work of clarifying textual and performance problems of interest to both readers and actors.

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Author:   William Shakespeare ,  Sheldon P. Zitner
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.405kg
ISBN:  

9780198129929

ISBN 10:   0198129920
Pages:   223
Publication Date:   01 October 1993
Recommended Age:   From 0 to 1 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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