Much Ado About Nothing

"Kittredge's admirably full notes, supplemented by Peter Kanelos's user-friendly introduction and references to film and television versions of the play, add up to a very accessible edition. I particularly liked the discussion of 'How to read Much Ado as performance,' which opens up a lot of possibilities for the student and teacher."
     —Lois Potter, Ned B. Allen Professor Emeritus, University of Delaware

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William Shakespeare
Edited by Peter Kanelos
Series Editor James H. Lake

2011 - 130 pp.
Imprint: Focus, Series: New Kittredge Shakespeare

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Paper 978-1-58510-267-9
$8.95
Instructor Examination (Review) Copy 978-1-58510-267-9
$1.00

George Lyman Kittredge's insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments—all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. The plays in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series retain the original Kittredge notes and introductions, changed or augmented only when some modernization seems necessary. These new editions also include introductory essays by contemporary editors, notes on the plays as they have been performed on stage and film, and additional student materials.

These plays are being made available by Focus with the permission of the Kittredge heirs.


Reviews:

"Kittredge's admirably full notes, supplemented by Peter Kanelos's user-friendly introduction and references to film and television versions of the play, add up to a very accessible edition. I particularly liked the discussion of 'How to read Much Ado as performance,' which opens up a lot of possibilities for the student and teacher."
     —Lois Potter, Ned B. Allen Professor Emeritus, University of Delaware


About the Author:

Peter Kanelos (Ph.D. University of Chicago) teaches at Loyola University of Chicago. He has taught at Stanford and is the editor of the New Variorum edition of Twelfth Night and has published articles on Shakespeare, Montaigne and Vasari. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2004 for work at the Blackfriars Theater in Virginia and the Globe Theater in London.