Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc
ISBN: 158049515X
Category : Courtship
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version.

Author: Ian Doescher
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1683691172
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Celebrate Tina Fey's Mean Girls with this illustrated adaptation of the cult classic script, retold in Shakespearean verse by the best-selling author of William Shakespeare's Star Wars. On Wednesdays we array ourselves in pink! Mean Girls gets an Elizabethan makeover in this totally fetch comedy of manners about North Shore High’s queen bees, wannabes, misfits, and nerds. Written in the style of the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Mean Girls tells the story of Cady Heron’s rise from home-schooled jungle freak to one of the most popular girls in school. Every scene and line of dialogue from the iconic script is reimagined in authentic Shakespearean rhyme, meter and stage directions, complete with dramatic asides from Janis, Damian, Gretchen, and Karen. By the end, you’ll be surprised that Shakespeare didn’t pen this classic story of rivalries, betrayal, jealousy, obsession, and fastidious rule-making about when one can and cannot wear sweatpants.

Author: Irving, Henry, Sir
Publisher: London, Chiswick Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Author: Gregory Seach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780949898401
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780748737765
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Modern version side-by-side with full original text.

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780199536115
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedict, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction. Paying particular attention to analysis of the play's minor characters, Sheldon P. Zitner discusses Shakespeare's transformation of his source material. He rethinks the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its view of marriage. Allowing for the play's openness to reinterpretation by successive generations of readers and performers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new views for the actor as much as for the critic.

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975274330
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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This complete, line-by-line translation makes the language of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing contemporary while preserving the metrical rhythm, complexity, and poetic qualities of the original. The aim is to capture both sound and sense of Shakespeare's comedy without the need for glosses or notes-to use contemporary language without simplifying or modernizing the play in any other way. Readers experience this comic exploration of male suspicion and its consequences with the challenge, comprehension, and delight of audiences 400 years ago-the way Shakespeare intended. Features * Line-by-line verse translation, not a prose paraphrase. * Complete. No lines deleted or simplified. * Accurate and authentic iambic pentameter. * True to the feel and look of Shakespeare's original. * Tone, complexity, and poetic devices preserved. * Subtlety and richness revealed without distracting notes and glosses. * For students, an accessible introduction to classic drama. * Attractive, uncluttered, easy-to-read layout. * Perfect for an audience-pleasing theatrical performance. "Too often, unless we read a Shakespeare play beforehand, we process the language as if it were coming from a poorly tuned-in radio station. Shakespeare didn't write his plays to be experienced impressionistically as 'poetry;' he assumed his language was readily comprehensible. At what point does a stage of a language become so different from the modern one as to make translation necessary? Mr. Richmond is brave enough to assert that, for Shakespeare, that time has come. The French have Moliere, the Russians have Chekhov-and now, we can truly say that we have our Shakespeare." -John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute "Richmond has performed a service for English-speaking students everywhere." -Boak Ferris, Calif. State Univ. Long Beach

Author: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822218104
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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THE STORY: Nobel Prize-winning author Abel Znorko lives as a recluse on a remote island in the Norwegian Seas. For fifteen years, his one friend and soulmate has been Helen, from whom he has been physically separated for the majority of their affai

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198328728
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Much Ado About Nothing is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438132034
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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Presents a collection of essays discussing historical aspects of William Shakespeare's comedy in which Beatrice and Benedick overcome the obstacles preventing their union and ultimately conceding to mutual love and respect for each other.