Much ado about nothing /
Much Ado About Nothing shows the violence of desire as well as its drive towards creative plotting or matchmaking. In this Handbook, Alison Findlay examines the play's comic and tragic potential in the theatre, its attempts to harmonize love and war, attraction and repulsion. The volume explore...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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| Series: | Shakespeare handbooks.
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| Online Access: | Cover image Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents only |
| Summary: | Much Ado About Nothing shows the violence of desire as well as its drive towards creative plotting or matchmaking. In this Handbook, Alison Findlay examines the play's comic and tragic potential in the theatre, its attempts to harmonize love and war, attraction and repulsion. The volume explores the play's resonance in early performances with reference to the crisis over fast-changing fashions, gendered notions of honor and the changing personnel of Shakespeare's company, analyzes the play from a performance point of view scene by scene, considering the interactions between spectators and actors, surveys key productions and films, including Barry Jackson's radical modernist production of 1919, the recently-rediscovered television film of Zeffirelli's 1965 National Theatre Production and Kenneth Branagh's 1993 film version and outlines the play's critical history from the eighteenth century to the present day, with a focus on contemporary concerns such as genre hybridity, sources and intertexts and the instability of signs and appearances. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 171 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230222618 (pbk.) 0230222617 (pbk.) 9780230222601 0230222609 |