Much Ado About Nothing: The Pelican Shakespeare - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143130188 ISBN 13: 9780143130185

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2017

Synopsis

These easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage appeared between 1956 and 1967. With these electrifying new covers, dependable texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remains a valued resource for students, teachers, and theatre professionals for many years to come. This edition of Much Ado About Nothing is edited with an introduction by Peter Holland.

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About the Author

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.
Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. He has edited Ben Johnson's masques, Christopher Marlowe's poems and translations, and many other classics. His books include Imagining Shakespeare, The Authentic Shakespeare, Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England and The Illusion of Power.
A. R. Braunmuller is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (King John) and Cambridge (Macbeth) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare.
Manuja Waldia is an illustrator and visual designer, living in Indianapolis. She graduated from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 2014.
Peter Holland was director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and professor of Shakespeare studies at the University of Birmingham. He is now McMeel Professor of Shakespeare at Notre Dame University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0143130188
• ISBN 13: 9780143130185
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Holland Peter