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Much Ado about Nothing de William Shakespeare

Much Ado about Nothing: Dover Thrift Study Edition

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: 9780486475790
ISBN-10: 0486475794
Pagini: 166
Dimensiuni: 133 x 211 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:Green
Editura: Dover Publications
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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

Includes the unabridged text of Shakespeare's classic play plus a complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the work's content and context. The comprehensive guide includes scene-by-scene summaries, explanations and discussions of the plot, question-and-answer sections, author biography, analytical paper topics, list of characters, bibliography, and more.

Descriere

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Much Ado About Nothing boasts one of Shakespeare's most delightful heroines, most dancing wordplay, and the endearing spectacle of intellectual and social self-importance bested by the desire to love and be loved in return. It offers both the dancing wit of the "merry war" between the sexes, and a sobering vision of the costs of that combat for both men and women. Shakespeare dramatizes a social world in all of its vibrant particulars, in which characters are shaped by the relations between social convention and individual choice.This edition of the play offers in its introduction and commentary an extensive discussion of the materials that informed Shakespeare's compositional choices, both those conventional sources and other contexts, from cuckold jokes to conduct books, which inform the ideas and identities of this play. Particular attention is devoted to Renaissance understandings of gender identity and social rank, as well as to the social valences of Shakespeare's stylistic choices. A treatment of staging possibilities offers illustrations drawn from the earliest and recent theatrical practices, and a critical history examines the fate of the play in the changing trends of academic scholarship. "The text is superb... the critical introduction is predictably smart and engaging, exactly the sort of essay one would recommend to students."Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare Survey

Notă biografică

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He was one of eight children born to John Shakespeare, a merchant of some standing in his community. William probably went to the King’s New School in Stratford, but he had no university education. In November 1582, at the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, who was pregnant with their first child, Susanna. She was born on May 26, 1583. Twins, a boy, Hamnet ( who would die at age eleven), and a girl, Judith, were born in 1585. By 1592 Shakespeare had gone to London working as an actor and already known as a playwright. A rival dramatist, Robert Greene, referred to him as “an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers.” Shakespeare became a principal shareholder and playwright of the successful acting troupe, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men (later under James I, called the King’s Men). In 1599 the Lord Chamberlain’s Men built and occupied the Globe Theater in Southwark near the Thames River. Here many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed by the most famous actors of his time, including Richard Burbage, Will Kempe, and Robert Armin. In addition to his 37 plays, Shakespeare had a hand in others, including Sir Thomas More and The Two Noble Kinsmen, and he wrote poems, including Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. His 154 sonnets were published, probably without his authorization, in 1609. In 1611 or 1612 he gave up his lodgings in London and devoted more and more time to retirement in Stratford, though he continued writing such plays as The Tempest and Henry VII until about 1613. He died on April 23 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. No collected edition of his plays was published during his life-time, but in 1623 two members of his acting company, John Heminges and Henry Condell, put together the great collection now called the First Folio.

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.