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Jul 31, 2015 · 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.
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Jul 31, 2015 · One of Shakespeare's most frequently performed comedies, Much Ado About Nothing includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness.
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 1, scene 1 - Folger Shakespeare …
Jul 31, 2015 · One of Shakespeare's most frequently performed comedies, Much Ado About Nothing includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness.
Much Ado About Nothing - Folger Shakespeare Library
One of Shakespeare’s most frequently performed comedies, Much Ado About Nothing includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness.
Much Ado About Nothing - Folgerpedia - Folger Shakespeare …
Much Ado About Nothing, one of William Shakespeare's plays, includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John , strikes out at their happiness.
Further Reading: Much Ado About Nothing - Folger Shakespeare …
“Much Ado About Nothing.” In Shakespeare’s Comedy of Love. London: Methuen, 1974. Leggatt places Much Ado against other Shakespearean comedies and finds it an experimental attempt at retaining the range and fluidity of Merchant of Venice while producing the “harmony of disparate elements” that distinguishes A Midsummer Night’s Dream ...
A Modern Perspective: Much Ado About Nothing
In Much Ado, I want to suggest, this patriarchal anxiety gives cuckoldry jokes a particular, local function. They work to resolve a social contradiction in Elizabethan society, a moment of double bind in the cultural history of marriage in which an authoritarian official tradition collided with an emergent ideal.
Much Ado About Nothing | Shakespeare Documented
On August 4, 1600, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, and As You Like It (along with a fourth play not authored by Shakespeare, Every Man in His Humor) were noted on the flyleaf of Liber C of the Stationer's Company.
Much Ado About Nothing, first edition - Shakespeare Documented
This is the first (and only) quarto edition of Much Ado About Nothing. The play was registered with the Stationers’ Company, along with Henry IV Part 2 , on August 23, 1600 by Andrew Wise and William Aspley, marking the first time Shakespeare’s name appeared in the Register.