Let Wonder Seem Familiar
Let Wonder Seem Familiar

Author: R.S. White

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2000-12-01

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0567199541

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Dr White examines the ways in which Shakespeare uses formal conventions from romance throughout his writing career, especially in giving formal completion to a play without forfeiting the 'open-ended' sense of life's complexity. In his romantic comedies these conventions are modified to imply that the cosy womb of marriage is not the end of lovers' lives; in the 'problem' comedies they are used to challenge the artifice of the comic ending; in some tragedies they are used to provide an ideal of fulfilment which has been destroyed by the tragic events - and in the last plays or 'romances' they are used to invoke the full sense of life's continuing comprehensiveness.

Much Ado About Nothing: Arden Performance Editions
Much Ado About Nothing: Arden Performance Editions

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 147427210X

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Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students. Designed to be used and to be useful, each edition has plenty of space for personal annotations and the well-spaced text is easy to read and to navigate.