Much ado about nothing /

Much ado about nothing /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Imprint:London : Arden Shakespeare, 2006.
Description:xix, 345 p. ; 20 cm.
Language:English
Series:The Arden Shakespeare. Third series
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 1995.
Subject:
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616
Much ado about nothing (Shakespeare, William)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5816666
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Other title:Arden Shakespeare 3
Other authors / contributors:McEachern, Claire, 1963-
ISBN:1903436826
1903436834 (pbk)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • General Editors preface
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Building a play: sources and contexts
  • The usual suspects: Ariosto and Bandello
  • Shakespeare's transformations of his sources: the creation of a social world
  • The maid
  • How many gentlemen?
  • The villain
  • The lover
  • Beyond the plot
  • Denouement
  • Dialogue and debate forms
  • Sexual stereotypes
  • Disdain
  • Modifications of type
  • Chaste, silent and obedient
  • Hero
  • Cuckolds Structure and style
  • The course of true love
  • Two plots?
  • Style
  • Prose and the prosaic
  • Euphuism
  • Verbal handshakes
  • The even road of a blank verse
  • Image patterns
  • Songs Staging Much Ado
  • Tonal choices
  • Social representations
  • Choice of place and time
  • Cultural moment
  • Afterlives
  • Origins Criticisms Text
  • First impressions
  • Making a book
  • Who is in, who is out
  • Who gets to say what?
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Appendix: Casting chart Abbreviations and References

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