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Much ADO about Nothing: A Critical Reader
Contributor(s): Cartmell, Deborah (Editor), Smith, Peter J. (Editor), Hiscock, Andrew (Editor)
ISBN: 147428437X     ISBN-13: 9781474284370
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
OUR PRICE:   $123.75  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2018
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Shakespeare
- Drama | Shakespeare
Dewey: 822.33
LCCN: 2017027591
Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.85 lbs) 280 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:

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.

Contributor Bio(s): Hiscock, Andrew: -

Andrew Hiscock is Professor of English at Bangor University, UK.

Cartmell, Deborah: - Deborah Cartmell is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Adaptations at De Montfort University, UK, founder and co-editor of the international journals Shakespeare and Adaptation, founder and former Chair of the Association of Adaptation Studies.Hopkins, Lisa: - Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at University of Sheffield Hallam. She has published numerous works on Shakespeare including her most recent work, Beginning Shakespeare (2005) and has written on film adaptations including Screening the Gothic. She is the Senior Editor of the online journal, Early Modern Literary Studies.