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Much Ado about Nothing: The 30-Minute Shakespeare de Nick Newlin

Much Ado about Nothing: The 30-Minute Shakespeare: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

Editat de Nick Newlin Autor William Shakespeare
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2010

Considerăm această ediție a piesei Much Ado About Nothing un instrument de studiu esențial, structurat metodologic pentru a facilita trecerea de la lectura de plăcere la analiza critică. Organizarea materialului urmărește o progresie logică: textul original este flancat de note explicative, fiind urmat de o secțiune densă de „Perspective și teme” care analizează mecanismele de înșelăciune și „noting” (observare/ascultare) ce guvernează acțiunea în Messina. Această abordare didactică permite cititorului să identifice rapid cum zvonurile și dezinformarea influențează ambele planuri narative: cel tragicomic al cuplului Hero-Claudio și cel spiritual al duelurilor verbale dintre Beatrice și Benedick.

Subliniem importanța aparatului critic integrat de Cedric Watts și Claire McEachern, care transformă experiența lecturii prin detalii despre convențiile teatrului elisabetan și figurile de stil utilizate de William Shakespeare. Ediția de față completează perspectiva oferită de Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader de Dr. Deborah Cartmell, adăugând textul integral adnotat și exerciții practice de scriere academică, în timp ce lucrarea menționată se concentrează preponderent pe istoricul reprezentațiilor scenice și ecranizărilor moderne.

În contextul operei autorului, dacă ediții precum The Tempest sunt orientate strict spre curriculumul GCSE, volumul de față adoptă o viziune mai largă, oferind o galerie foto și analize de interpretare care îi ajută pe studenți să vizualizeze piesa în context performativ. Credem că această ediție reușește să mențină echilibrul între rigoarea academică și accesibilitatea necesară unui cititor contemporan, oferind claritate asupra unor termeni arhaici fără a fragmenta cursivitatea lecturii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781935550037
ISBN-10: 1935550039
Pagini: 61
Dimensiuni: 137 x 211 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Nicolo Whimsey Press
Colecția Nicolo Whimsey Press
Seriile The 30-Minute Shakespeare, 30-Minute Shakespeare

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această ediție pentru oricine dorește să exploreze profunzimea celei mai spirituale comedii a lui Shakespeare. Dincolo de textul original, cititorul câștigă o înțelegere clară a contextului social elisabetan prin notele exhaustive. Este alegerea ideală pentru studenți și actori, oferind un ghid practic despre cum se construiește un eseu critic și cum a evoluat piesa pe scenă de-a lungul secolelor.

Despre autor

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) este recunoscut universal drept cel mai important dramaturg al limbii engleze. Cariera sa în Londra, ca actor și acționar al companiei Lord Chamberlain's Men, i-a permis să creeze un corpus impresionant de 39 de piese și 154 de sonete. Much Ado About Nothing aparține perioadei sale de maturitate în genul comediei, demonstrând măiestria sa în utilizarea dialogului scânteietor și a jocurilor de cuvinte complexe. Opera sa, tradusă în toate limbile majore, rămâne fundamentul literaturii dramatice universale, fiind continuu reinterpretată în mediul academic și artistic.

Descriere scurtă

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited.
"The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the “story” of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare’s language intact. Specific stage directions and character suggestions give even inexperienced actors the tools to perform Shakespeare with confidence, understanding, and fun!
This cutting of Shakespeare's utterly charming and popular comedy MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING features five key scenes, including Beatrice and Benedick's classic initial word-battle, and the uproarious hide-and-seek deception of the two "lovers." The next scenes are the brutal rejection of Hero at the altar by a deceived Claudio and the timeless manhandling of the English language by the bumbling constable Dogberry. In the fifth and final scene, Shakespeare resolves the play's conflicts and confusions, and love reigns again. This cutting really tells the story, and includes some sidesplitting stage business, particularly the back-and-forth physical and verbal parrying between Benedick and Beatrice.
The edition also includes an essay by editor Nick Newlin on how to produce a Shakespeare play with novice actors, and notes about the original production of this abridgement at the Folger Shakespeare Library's annual Student Shakespeare Festival.

Notă biografică

William Shakespeare 26 April 1564 ¿ 23 April 1616was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.[ Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. . Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. Until about 1608, he wrote mainly tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, Shakespeare's works have been continually adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain popular and are studied, performed, and reinterpreted through various cultural and political contexts around the world.

Descriere

"I never understood how much drama is used and how valuable it can be. The experience opened my eyes. Enormous wealth of knowledge--you have shared so much with us and we are forever grateful."--Courtney McBride, teacher, Washington, DC

Cuprins

Introduction; Photo gallery; List of characters; Act 1; Act 2; Act 3; Act 4; Act 5; Perspectives and themes; Fashion and appearance; Characters; The language of Much Ado About Nothing; Much Ado About Nothing in performance; Writing about Shakespeare; Writing about Much Ado About Nothing; Timeline; Acknowledgements.

Recenzii

'Cambridge has come up with an excellent new series, Shakespeare in Production, which is going to be invaluable to anybody studying, acting, or producing his plays.' Plays and Players Applause Magazine
'Shakespeare in Production … is … ideally suited to people like me: people as interested in the stage history of a Shakespearean play as in its text. What distinguishes these editions, and makes them of particular interest to drama and theatre departments, is their unique concentration on theatrical production.' Studies in Theatre Production
'I cannot recommend too highly the whole series (a bargain at £16.99 for each play) to all theatre lovers, theatregoers, theatre practitioners, and anybody who enjoys Shakespeare.' Robert Tanitch, What's on in London
' ... interesting things to say on structure ...' Plays International

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Great pains have been taken to follow Shakespeare's intentions with regard to the act and scene division and the exact form of speech. The editing has been done from the quarto or folio texts, depending on which is considered more authoritative, and the ideal has been to reproduce the chosen texts with as few alterations as possible. In order to help the reader and student, the annotations have been arranged on the relevant pages, providing an easily accessible and indispensable source of information.