Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Folios)

by WilliamShakespeare (Author), NickDeSomogyi (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $16.54

  Reproduces the First Folio of the plays of William Shakespeare (1623) letter for letter, dot for dot, but does so in modern type. As a further aid to understanding, on each opposite page, the same text appears, but this time in a fully modernised version.

• Used

  Paperback
  2010

  $3.49

  • Fully updated to meet the needs of the GCSE 2010 specifications.

  • Exclusive awarding-body specific support to help students realise their full potential.

  • The most accessible texts with supportive notes, activities and advice to engage students.

  • Remains the best value for money available.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $15.04

  Much Ado has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation, in which the most famous actors, from the time of Garrick to the present, have appeared as the sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice. A full commentary includes annotation of the many sexual jokes in the play that have been obscured by the complexity of Elizabethan language. For this updated edition Angela Stock has added a new section to the Introduction in which she reviews the romantic and the darker, more cynical aspects of the play in the light of late twentieth-century stage, film and critical interpretations. She also tackles the interesting question of Beatrice's proper age and the critical fortunes of Hero and Claudio in terms of the play's interest in sexuality and misogyny, eavesdropping and deception.