Long celebrated as one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, Much Ado About Nothing appears here edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex, as part of the Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series – a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’s works whose textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. The play turns on the wittily combative relationship between Benedick and Beatrice, which love eventually wins out over, while Dogberry, Verges and the watchmen supply broader comic relief. Ranging between the destructively sinister and the lyrically romantic, the drama takes on a complex and at times problematic character, and numerous revivals on stage and screen have continued to reveal the lively variety and interpretative openness of this engaging comedy.
ISBN 13: 9781853262548
Author: William Shakespeare
