Much Ado about Nothing (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
The Editor
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
	1  An early modern watchman, with his bill and lantern, from Thomas Dekker\'s Gull\'s Hornbook (1609)
	2  Title-page of Will Kemp\'s Nine Days Wonder (1600)
	3  A man bearing the servile yoke, punishing stocks and effeminizing skirt of matrimony. From Henry Peacham\'s Minerva Britannia (1598)
	4  The emblem illustrating Vis Amoris, from Henry Peacham\'s Minerva Britannia (1598)
	5  Diana and Actaeon, from Henry Peacham\'s Minerva Britannia (1598)
	6  A seventeenth-century woodcut accompanying the ballad \'A Married Man\'s Miserie\'
	7  1.1 (146–53), from a promptbook of a 1904–5 touring American production by E.H. Southern and Julia Marlowe
	8  Hero swoons after Claudio\'s repudiation in the church scene (4.1), the frontispiece to Nicholas Rowe\'s edition of 1709
	9  Hero swoons after Claudio\'s repudiation in the church scene (4.1), engraving by Jean Pierre Simon of the painting by William Hamilton (1790)
	10  Hero swoons after Claudio\'s repudiation in the church scene (4.1), engraving by Edward Francis Burney (1791)
	11  Dogberry and the Watch (4.2), in the 1976 RSC production, directed by John Barton
	12  Dogberry addresses the Watch in 3.3, engraving by Henry Meadows (1845)
	13  Edward Gordon Craig\'s preliminary sketch for the church scene (4.1) in his production of 1903–4
	14  Ellen Terry as a kinder, gentler Beatrice in Henry Irving\'s Lyceum production, 1884–5
	15  Charles Kemble as Benedick, drawing by J.H. Lynch, published by Engelmann, London (1828)
	16  Title-page of Thomas Kyd\'s The Spanish Tragedy (1615)
	17  2.3 in Terry Hands\'s 1983 RSC production
	18  2.3 in John Gielgud\'s production at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 1950
	19  3.1 in John Barton\'s 1976 RSC production
	20  3.1 in the engraving by James Heath of W. Peters\'s painting for Boydell\'s Shakespeare Gallery (1791)
	21  Much Ado About Nothing, 1600 Quarto, sigs G3v–4r (4.1.305–4.2.54)
General Editors\' Preface
	The Text
	Commentary and Textual Notes
	Introduction
Preface
Introduction
	Building a play: sources and contexts
		The usual suspects: Ariosto and Bandello
		Shakespeare\'s transformations of his sources: the creation of a social world
		The maid
		\'How many gentlemen?\'
		The villain
		The lover
		Beyond the plot
		Denouement
		Dialogue and debate forms
		Sexual stereotypes
		Disdain
		Modifications of type
		Chaste, silent and obedient
		Hero
		Cuckolds
	Structure and style
		\'The course of true love\'
		Two plots?
		Style
		Prose and the prosaic
		Euphuism
		Verbal handshakes
		\'The even road of a blank verse\'
		Image patterns
		Songs
	Staging Much Ado
		Tonal choices
		Social representations
		Choice of place and time
		Cultural moment
		Afterlives
		Origins
	Criticism
	Text
		First impressions
		Making a book
		Who\'s in, who\'s out
		Who gets to say what?
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
	List of Roles
		The Soldiers
		The Household of the Governor of Messina
		Townspeople of Messina
		Others
	Act 1
		1
		2
		3
	Act 2
		1
		2
		3
	Act 3
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
	Act 4
		1
		2
	Act 5
		1
		2
		3
		4
Appendix: Casting chart
Abbreviations and references
	Abbreviations used in notes
	Works by and partly by Shakespeare
	Editions of Shakespeare collated or referred to
	Other works cited
	Modern stage, film and television productions cited
Index
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