Much Ado About Nothing: Three Responses To Shakespeare’s Play

Dana Percec; Codruţa Goşa

doi:10.1515/rjes-2015-0014

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Much Ado About Nothing: Three Responses To Shakespeare’s Play

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 12 (2015): Issue 1 (November 2015)

By: Dana Percec and Codruţa Goşa

Open Access

|Nov 2015

Abstract

The paper looks at Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado about Nothing, as well as two film adaptations of the play, from a reader-oriented perspective, offering samples of an expert reading of the play, an initiated reading and a so-called “innocent” reading. We compare the three approaches taking into consideration the reception of the play’s motifs (such as the bedtrick) and the conventional reaction of the readers to them.

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Articles in this issue

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2015-0014 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0428 (formerly 1584-3734) | Journal ISSN: 1584-3734

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Language: English

Page range: 110 - 122

Published online: Nov 27, 2015

Published in print: Nov 1, 2015

Published by: West University of Timisoara

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

reader-orientedness,

expert,

initiated and innocent reading,

reception

Related subjects:

Linguistics and semiotics,

Theoretical frameworks and disciplines,

Linguistics, other

© 2015 Dana Percec, Codruţa Goşa, published by West University of Timisoara
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Volume 12 (2015): Issue 1 (November 2015)