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Much Ado about Nothing

Much Ado about Nothing

by William ShakespearePeter Holland and David Bevington
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 01/04/2007

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This remarkable edition features a newly edited text of Much Ado About Nothing based on the latest scholarship, along with detailed essays, commentary and photos. On the integrated audio CD, narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi, you can hear the play through multiple productions from different eras, and experience different actors' interpretations of the characters.Hear 26 great performances including: - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Saskia Reeves, Pauline Jameson, and Maureen Fitzgerald as Beatrice - Sir John Gielgud, Samuel West, Richard Johnson, and John Horton as Benedick - Bonus audio discussion of a voice coach's perspective on "Speaking Shakespeare" with Andrew Wade, voice consultant for Shakespeare in LoveSee photographs from notable productions: - Kenneth Branagh's 1993 film - Kristen Johnson, Jimmy Smits, David Hyde Pierce at the Joseph Papp Public Theater - Harriet Walter, Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Janet Suzman at the Royal Shakespeare Company - Costume renderings from the 1958 production at the Shakespeare Memorial TheateRead essays and commentary with insights from: - Courtney Lehmann, author of Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern, on Kenneth Branagh's 1993 film - Douglas Lanier, editor of Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture on Much Ado About Nothing as inspiration for contemporary media - Text editor Jeffrey Kahan, series editor of Shakespeare Millennium, on productions of Much Ado About Nothing throughout historyReaders will also learn about contemporary and film performances, explore the play from a modern cast's point of view, and uncover the history of Shakespeare's world with additional essays by noted experts.
ISBN:
9781402207778
9781402207778
Category:
Shakespeare plays
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
01-04-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Sourcebooks, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
203.2x152.4x24.38mm
Weight:
0.4kg
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1564. The date of his birth is unknown but is celebrated on 23 April, which happens to be St George's Day, and the day in 1616 on which Shakespeare died.

Aged eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. They had three children. Around 1585 William joined an acting troupe on tour in Stratford from London, and thereafter spent much of his life in the capital. By 1595 he had written five of his history plays, six comedies and his first tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. In all, he wrote thirty-seven plays and much poetry, and earned enormous fame in his own lifetime in prelude to his immortality.

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