The Interruption of Heteronormativity in Higher Education: Critical Queer Pedagogies (Queer Studies and Education)

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Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts,
is one of Shakespeare’s most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies.
This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction. Paying particular attention to analysis of the play’s minor characters, Sheldon P Zitner discusses Shakespeare’s transformation of his source material. He rethinks the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its view of marriage.
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Allowing for the play’s openness to reinterpretation by successive generations of readers and performers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new views for the actor as much as for the critic.