{"product_id":"much-ado-about-nothing-and-the-new-awareness-9781666930412","title":"Much Ado about Nothing and the New Awareness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. and Nicholas Utzig\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection I: Epistemology and Truth in Much Ado About Nothing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: “Change Slander to Remorse”: Acknowledgement and (Self)-Recognition in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Sélima Lejri\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: “Deceivers Ever”: Much Ado About Nothing and Cultures of Deception, Kathleen Kalpin Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection II: Present and Past in Much Ado About Nothing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: The Threat of the Stranger in Much Ado About Nothing, Stephanie Chamberlain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: “In Messina Here”: Shakespeare’s Use of Setting in Much Ado About Nothing, Philip Goldfarb Styrt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection III: Crime and Punishment in Much Ado About Nothing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Punishing Wrongdoers and Other Things I Didn’t Know I Needed From A Romantic Comedy: Messina as a Post-Conflict Society, Kelsey Ridge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Slut Shaming, Revenge Porn, and the Making of Meaning by Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing, Anthony Guy Patricia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Margaret’s Complicated Consent: An Overlooked Victim in Much Ado About Nothing, Jolene Mendel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection IV: Shakespearean Adaptation and Performance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: “Till all graces be in one woman”: Archetypes of Womanhood in YA Adaptations of Much Ado About Nothing, Anna Graham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Much Ado About Nothing, Performance and Cultural Identity, Jami Rogers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Teaching “Kill Claudio” in the Age of Streamed Shakespeare, Joseph Sullivan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: “Almost the copy of my child that’s dead”: Ghosts and Adaptation in Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, Jim Casey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042028912983,"sku":"9781666930412","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666930412.jpg?v=1750952698","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/much-ado-about-nothing-and-the-new-awareness-9781666930412","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}