Much Ado About Nothing (Arden Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare) - Softcover

William Shakespeare; Arthur Raleigh Humphreys

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9780415027007: Much Ado About Nothing (Arden Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare)

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ISBN 10: 0415027004 ISBN 13: 9780415027007

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989

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Set in a courtly world of masked revels and dances, this play turns on the archetypal story if a lady falsely accused of unfaithfulness, spurned by her bridegroom, and finally vindicated and reunited with him. Villainy, schemes, and deceit threatens to darken the brilliant humor and sparkling wordplay--but the hilarious counterplot of a warring couple, Beatrice and Benedick, steals the scene as the two are finally tricked into admitting their love for each other in Shakespeare's superb comedy of manners.

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Book Description:

A revised edition of the Arden Third Series play, edited by leading scholar Claire McEachern.

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The general editors of the new series of forty-two volumes -- renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA -- have assembled a team of six eminent scholars who have, along with the general editors themselves, prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original -- and including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used -- the new Pelican Shakespeare will be an excellent resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals well into the twenty-first century.

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