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Much Ado about Nothing and the New Awareness

Much Ado about Nothing and the New Awareness


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The essays in this volume rethink Much Ado About Nothing from the standpoint of the New Awareness. Scholars today are by necessity both the products and the producers of this awareness. Moreover, the essays in this collection touch upon problems that are germane to the political climate today and similar to the concerns reflected in this play. Three essays discuss epistemology and determining real information from its simulation. Other essays concern issues that are central to the #MeToo Movement, including rape culture and the credibility of women. Aside from the immediate textual and historical context, other essays address issues of race and gender in adaptations and theatrical productions, especially in young-adult prose adaptations of the play and in theater’s practice of inclusive and race-conscious staging.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. and Nicholas Utzig

Section I: Epistemology and Truth in Much Ado About Nothing

Chapter 1: “Change Slander to Remorse”: Acknowledgement and (Self)-Recognition in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Sélima Lejri
Chapter 2: “Deceivers Ever”: Much Ado About Nothing and Cultures of Deception, Kathleen Kalpin Smith

Section II: Present and Past in Much Ado About Nothing

Chapter 3: The Threat of the Stranger in Much Ado About Nothing, Stephanie Chamberlain
Chapter 4: “In Messina Here”: Shakespeare’s Use of Setting in Much Ado About Nothing, Philip Goldfarb Styrt
Chapter 5: “A Bird of My Tongue is Better than a Beast of Yours”: Metamorphosis and Moral Relativism in Much Ado About Nothing and #MeToo, Christine Hoffman

Section III: Crime and Punishment in Much Ado About Nothing

Chapter 6: Punishing Wrongdoers and Other Things I Didn’t Know I Needed From A Romantic Comedy: Messina as a Post-Conflict Society, Kelsey Ridge
Chapter 7: Slut Shaming, Revenge Porn, and the Making of Meaning by Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing, Anthony Guy Patricia
Chapter 8: Margaret’s Complicated Consent: An Overlooked Victim in Much Ado About Nothing, Jolene Mendel

Section IV: Shakespearean Adaptation and Performance

Chapter 9: “Till all graces be in one woman”: Archetypes of Womanhood in YA Adaptations of Much Ado About Nothing, Anna Graham
Chapter 10: Much Ado About Nothing, Performance and Cultural Identity, Jami Rogers
Chapter 11: Teaching “Kill Claudio” in the Age of Streamed Shakespeare, Joseph Sullivan
Chapter 12: “Almost the copy of my child that’s dead”: Ghosts and Adaptation in Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, Jim Casey

Afterword
About the Authors



About the Author :

W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. is associate professor of English at South Carolina State University.

Nicholas Utzig is lecturer at Sarah Lawrence College.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781666930412
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
  • Height: 237 mm
  • No of Pages: 250
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 158 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1666930415
  • Publisher Date: 04 Dec 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 589 gr


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