Much Ado about Nothing (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)

Cover......Page 1
Copyright page......Page 6
Contents......Page 9
List of Illustrations......Page 10
The date of the play......Page 23
2  A stage-property arbour from the title page of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, 1615 edition......Page 24
3  Alternative Elizabethan stagings for the arbour scene (2.3). Drawing by C. Walter Hodges......Page 25
4  Claudio repudiates Hero in the church (4.1), from Rowe's edition, 1709......Page 28
5  Ellen Terry as Beatrice, 1882......Page 30
6  Johnston Forbes-Robertson's painting of the church scene (4.1) in Irving's Lyceum production, 1882......Page 32
7  Edward Gordon Craig's sketch for the church scene (4.1) for his 1903 production......Page 34
8  Edward Gordon Craig's design for Leonato's garden, 1903......Page 35
9  John Gielgud as Benedick in the arbour (2.3), 1950.......Page 37
10  Judi Dench as Beatrice (3.4), 1976. Photograph: Nobby Clark and the Shakespeare Centre Library......Page 39
11  Sinead Cusack and Derek Jacobi as Beatrice and Benedick (5.4), 1982. Photograph: Chris Davies......Page 40
12  David Garrick as Benedick in the arbour scene (2.3), 1777......Page 43
13  Suggested Elizabethan staging for the overhearing of Conrad and Borachio by the Watch. Drawing by C. Walter Hodges......Page 49
14  Suggested Elizabethan staging of the scene at Leonato's tomb (5.3) and the entry of the masked ladies (5.4). Drawing by C. Walter Hodges......Page 56
15  Di Trevis' production for the Royal Shakespeare Company, 1988, with Clive Merrison as Benedick, Ralph Fiennes as Claudio, Antony Brown as Leonato and David Lyon as Don Pedro.......Page 65
16  Janet McTeer and Mark Rylance as Beatrice and Benedick in Matthew Warchus' production at the Queen's Theatre, London, 1922.......Page 69
Preface......Page 11
1  Shakespeare's plays......Page 13
2  Other works cited and general references......Page 14
Sources......Page 17
Stage history......Page 26
The criticism of the play......Page 45
A note on the text......Page 57
Postscript, March 1987......Page 61
Performance history......Page 64
Criticism......Page 72
List of characters......Page 79
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Supplementary notes......Page 174
The nature of the copy for Q and the problems of the text for editor and producer......Page 176
1: The time-scheme of Much Ado About Nothing......Page 182
2: Lewis Carroll's letter to Ellen Terry......Page 185
3: Benedick's song, 5.2.18–22......Page 187
Reading list......Page 190
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