Much Ado About Nothing

图书标准信息

• 作者 William Shakespeare（威廉·莎士比亚） 著；David L. Stevenson 编
• 出版社 Penguin
• 出版时间 1997-07
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780451526816
• 定价 36.70元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 32开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 240页
• 丛书 Signet Classics

【内容简介】

Imaginative,exuberantcomedycontrasts2pairsofloversinawittyandsuspensefulbattleofthesexes.Filledwithsuspense,cleverturnsofplot,vivaciousdisplaysofwitandcharmingsongs.

UniquefeaturesoftheSignetClassicShakespeare

AnextensiveoverviewofShakespeare'slife,world,andtheaterbythegeneraleditoroftheSignetClassicShakespeareseries,SylvanBarnet

Aspecialintroductiontotheplaybytheeditor,DavidL.Stevenson,HunterCollege

AspecialnoteonthesourcesfromwhichShakespearederivedMuchAdoaboutNothing

Dramaticcriticismfromthepastandpresent:commentariesbyCharlesGildon,LewisCarroll,GeorgeBernardShaw,DonaldA.Stauffer,W.H.Auden,CarolThomasNeely,andRobertSmallwood

Acomprehensivestageandscreenhistoryofnotableactors,directors,andproductionsofMuchAdoaboutNothing,thenandnow

Text,notes,andcommentariesprintedintheclearest,mostreadabletype

Up-to-datelistofrecommendedreadings

【作者简介】

WilliamShakespearewasborninStratford-upon-AvoninApril1564,andhisbirthistraditionallycelebratedonApril23.Thefactsofhislife,knownfromsurvivingdocuments,aresparse.HewasoneofeightchildrenborntoJohnShakespeare,amerchantofsomestandinginhiscommunity.WilliamprobablywenttotheKing'sNewSchoolinStratford,buthehadnouniversityeducation.InNovember1582,attheageofeighteen,hemarriedAnneHathaway,eightyearshissenior,whowaspregnantwiththeirfirstchild,Susanna.ShewasbornonMay26,1583.Twins,aboy,Hamnet(whowoulddieatageeleven),andagirl,Judith,werebornin1585.By1592ShakespearehadgonetoLondonworkingasanactorandalreadyknownasaplaywright.Arivaldramatist,RobertGreene,referredtohimas"anupstartcrow,beautifiedwithourfeathers."Shakespearebecameaprincipalshareholderandplaywrightofthesuccessfulactingtroupe,theLordChamberlain'sMen(laterunderJamesI,calledtheKing'sMen).In1599theLordChamberlain'sMenbuiltandoccupiedtheGlobeTheaterinSouthwarkneartheThamesRiver.HeremanyofShakespeare'splayswereperformedbythemostfamousactorsofhistime,includingRichardBurbage,WillKempe,andRobertArmin.Inadditiontohis37plays,Shakespearehadahandinothers,includingSirThomasMoreandTheTwoNobleKinsmen,andhewrotepoems,includingVenusandAdonisandTheRapeofLucrece.His154sonnetswerepublished,probablywithouthisauthorization,in1609.In1611or1612hegaveuphislodgingsinLondonanddevotedmoreandmoretimetoretirementinStratford,thoughhecontinuedwritingsuchplaysasTheTempestandHenryVIIuntilabout1613.HediedonApril231616,andwasburiedinHolyTrinityChurch,Stratford.Nocollectededitionofhisplayswaspublishedduringhislife-time,butin1623twomembersofhisactingcompany,JohnHemingesandHenryCondell,puttogetherthegreatcollectionnowcalledtheFirstFolio.

【目录】

Shakespeare: An Overview vii

　Biographical Sketch vii / A Note on the Anti-Stratfordians,Especially Baconians and Oxfordians xi / The Shakespeare Canon xv /Shakespeare's English xviii / Shakespeare's The- ater xxvi I A Noteon the Use of Boy Actors in Female Roles xxxiii / Shakespeare'sDramatic Language: Costumes, Ges- tures and Silences; Prose andPoetry xxxvi / The Play Text as a Collaboration xliii / EditingTexts xlix / Shakespeare on the Stage liv

Introduction lxiii

Much Ado About Nothing

Textual Note

A Note on the Sources of Much Ado About Nothing

Commentaries

　CHARLES GILDON  The Argument of Much Ado About Nothing

　LEWIS CARROLL  A Letter to Ellen Terry

　GEORGE BERNARD SHAW  Shakespear's Merry Gentlemen

　DONALD A. STAUFFER  From Shakespeare's World of Images

　W. H. AUDEN  From The Dyer's Hand

　CAROL THOMAS NELLY  Broken Nuptials in Much Ado AboutNothing

　ROBERT SMALLWOOD  Three Ways to Begin Much Ado AboutNothing

　SYLVAN BARNET  Much Ado About Nothing on Stage andScreen

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