The Folger Library is the nation’s best, most navigable and most respected resource for Shakespeare scholarship and teaching. The authoritative edition of Much Ado About Nothing features the side-by-side format favored by both students and teachers, as well as guides to the play’s most famous lines and Shakespearean phrases and language. The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is Released on: Novem. In this play Shakespeare eschewed devices of obvious magic or disguise of sex, which he employed in other comedies; the wit and ambiguity of the dialogue and the exquisite pacing of the action sustain the play, which remains popular in repertory.4/5(4). Much Ado About Nothing written by William Shakespeare, is considered one of his most endearing and best comedic plays. It is believed to have been written between and , and is considered to be a perfect combination of humor and serious contemplations on subjects of shame, public honor, and bureaucratic politics.
Much Ado About Nothing Resources Movie or TV Productions. TV Miniseries The BBC Drama Group presents Much Ado About Nothing, set in a modern day TV studio.. Movie A film of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Kenneth Branagh. Branagh plays Benedick, Emma Thompson acts as Beatrice, Kate Beckinsale is Hero, and Keanu Reeves plays Don John. Much Ado About Nothing boasts one of Shakespeare's most delightful heroines, most dancing wordplay, and the endearing spectacle of intellectual and social self-importance bested by the desire to love and be loved in return. It offers both the dancing wit of the "merry war" between the sexes, and a sobering vision of the costs of that combat for both men and women. David Anthony Lewis, Constance Swain, Renea Brown, and Brandon Carter in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Photo by Lindsey Walters. Jessika Williams and Meg Rodgers in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING,
and enjoyment of Shakespeare. The primary plot of Much Ado About Nothing turns on the courtship and scandal involving young Hero and her suitor, Claudio, but the witty war of words between Claudio’s friend Benedick and Hero’s cousin Beatrice often takes center stage. Set in Messina, the play begins as Don Pedro’s army returns after a victory. Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how. LEONATO He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much glad of it. Messenger. Much Ado About Nothing: a comedy, William Shakespeare () Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in and , as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career. The play was included in the First Folio, published in
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