Much ado about nothing / Alison Findlay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Findlay, Alison, 1963-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

McCallum, Alistair, 1954- Shakespeare handbooks

The Shakespeare handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Much ado about nothing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

ix, 171 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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 harmonise 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 honour, 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; 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

General editor's preface

Acknowledgements

The text and early performances

Commentary

Intellectual and cultural contexts

Key productions

The play on screen

Critical assessment

Further reading

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230222618

0230222617

9780230222601

0230222609

OCLC:

713185394

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