Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students. Designed to be used and to be useful, each edition has plenty of space for personal annotations and the well-spaced text is easy to read and to navigate.
The critically acclaimed series from the leading center for Shakespearean studies presents freshly edited texts of each play based on the earliest printed versions, along with detailed explanatory notes on facing pages, scene-by-scene plot ...
Much Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on conventions of gender and male rivalry.
This is the Classic Book
This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction.
In 1996, Michael Boyd's production was staged in another enclosed courtyard, but its eclectic nature failed to please: "The costumes are Elizabethan enough but Tom Piper's set is decidedly odd, a mixture of 18th-century drawing-room, ...
Much Ado about Nothing: a Play in One Act
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare.
This book is a modern translation of Much Ado About Nothing The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of the modern text. We all need refreshers every now and then.
HUMOUR AND COMEDY Claudio is in love with Hero, but is afraid that she will reject him. His friend, Don Pedro, volunteers to make her fall in love with him at a masked ball. The trick works and Hero agrees to marry Claudio.
Much Ado about Nothing: Text and Performance