Much Ado About Nothing

Posted on 06 January 2017 by William Shakespeare

Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing 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.About the Series For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up to date bibliographies for further study, and much.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. Free Download Much Ado About Nothing [ author ] William Shakespeare [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Much Ado About Nothing, abridged CLAUDIO So, um, Hero, I sorta maybe like you a whole lot will you go to the prom with me HERO We should get married Squeeeeeee BEATRICE Pfft Love is for stupid losers who are stupid BENEDICK You know, you might get laidoften if you weren t such a cynical bitch all the time.BEATRICE Fuck you BENEDICK Get in line, sugartits audience is beaten over the head by sexual tension DON PEDRO Hey everybody, I had a great idea Let s make Beatrice and Bene Much Ado About Nothing, abridged CLAUDIO So, um, Hero, I sorta maybe like you a whole lot will you go to the prom with me HERO We should get married Squeeeeeee BEATRICE Pfft Love is for stupid losers who are stupid BENEDICK You know, you might get laidoften if you weren t such a cynical bitch all the time.BEATRICE Fuck you BENEDICK Get in line, sugartits audience is beaten over the head by sexual tension DON PEDRO Hey everybody, I had a great idea Let s make Beatrice and Benedick fall in love EVERYONE YAY MEDDLING PRINCE JOHN So, I think I m going to break up Claudio and Hero.BORACHIO Really That s your dastardly scheme How do we possibly benefit from tha...I don t think Much Ado ranks with Shakespeare s very best for three reasons 1 the plot is weak, particularly the deception that moves things along during the first act why does Don Pedro choose to woo by proxy en masque What is to be gained by it except delay and confusion , 2 Dogberry and Verges are second rate clowns, and 3 Claudio, in his readiness to believe ill of Hero, is too unsympathetic a lover for a non problem comedy On the other hand, whenever Beatrice and Benedict are sparri I don t think Much Ado ranks wit...Let s face it, there aren t too many of Shakespeare s females who kick ass Yes, we all can name the four or five that don t quite suck Kat, Portia, Viola, Emilia, etc but good strong feminine characters were not, it seems, the bard s strong suit So as you wade through the whiny, conniving, helpless throngs of man worshipping wenches that appear in nearly all Shakespeare plays, it can be tempting to just give up looking for redemption But alas, it is this lack of strong feminine voice that m Let s face it, there aren t too many of Shakespeare s females who kick ass Yes, we all can name the four or five that don t quite suck Kat, Portia, Viola, Emilia, etc but good strong feminine characters were not, it seems, the bard s strong suit So as you wade through the whiny, conniving, helpless throngs of man worshipping wenches that appear in nearly all Shakespeare plays, it can be tempting to just give up looking for redemption But alas, it is this lack of strong feminine voice that makes the discovery of a truly awesome character likeMuch Ado About Nothings Beatrice that muchthrilling Beatrice is without a doubt my favorite of all Shakespeare s women She is smart, sardonic, and fierce And while many chide her for her decision to marry, a decision that some argue nullif...I am probably the last person in the whole history of the world to get it, but, just in case there s someone else left, it occurred to me yesterday that the title of this play had to be a rude pun Five minutes on Google was enough to confirm my suspicions From this page In Shakespeare s time nothing was a euphemism for a woman s naughty bits This gave the title three different yet equally appropriate meanings, as the main conflict over the play revolves around the false implication of Hero I am probably the last person in the whole history of the world to get it, but, just in case there s someone else left, it occurred to me yesterday that the title of this play had to be a rude pun Five minutes on Google was enough to confirm my suspicions From this page In Shakespeare s time nothing was a euphemism for a woman s naughty bits Thi...I saw an absolutely brilliant version of this play today at Shakespeare s Globe in London It was Mexican themed, full of dancing, gunshots, high racing emotions and many moments of farcical humour All in all, it was a great production of an imperfect play If I m ever critical of Shakespeare s works it s because I know how excellent Shakespeare can be The Tempest is one of the best things ever written in the English language Similarly, Richard II is pure poetry, beautiful and powerf...Review3 of 5 stars to William Shakespeare s play Much Ado About Nothing We read this play in my 9th or 10th grade English course as a comparison to hispopular plays such as Macbeth, Othello, Romeo Juliet and Hamlet, as well as something different from his historical fiction plays about various kings and queens It was an opportunity to see his brilliance in writing something different and basically about nothing Well not really nothing, but you get the drift.It was a decentReview3 of 5 stars to William Shakespeare s play Much Ado About Nothing We read this play in my 9th or 10th grade English course as a comparison to hispopular plays such as Macbeth, Othello, Romeo Juliet and Hamlet, as well as something different from his historical fict...In the 1906 preface to The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James described the book as an ado about Isabel Archer That reference caught my attention, and since I d never read Shakespeare s Much Ado , and since I love to follow even the vaguest of book trails, I browsed my bookstore s Shakespeare shelves as soon as I had an opportunity Like most of you, I d read some of the plays for study purposes but I d never bought a Shakespeare play for pleasure In my innocence, I presumed buying Shakespeare In the 1906 preface to The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James described the book as an ado about Isabel Archer That reference caught my attention, and since I d never read Shakespeare s Much Ado , and since I love to follow even the vaguest of book trails, I browsed my bookstore s Shakespeare shelves as soon as I had a...Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, in Spain, is coming to Messina, the capital of Sicily, for a little RR, just having defeated his treacherous half brother, in battle, with few casualties, nobody important , Don John the Bastard , they are now reconciled again His army needs it, Rest and Relaxation, the governor of that city is his good, longtime friend, Leonato The time, is unstated, but Aragon, ruled that island, in the 15th century Count Claudio, who gained glory in battle, in the Pr Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, in Spain, is coming to Messina, the capital of Sicily, for a little RR, just having defeated his treacherous half brother, in battle, with few casualties, nobody important , Don John the Bastard , they are now reconciled again His army needs it, Rest and Relaxation, the governor of that city is his good, longtime friend, Leonato The time, is unstated, but Aragon, ruled that island, in the 15th century Count Claudio, who gained glory in battle, in the Prince s army, and a favorite of his royal boss, meets Hero , lovely...What happened was, I hadn t been paying close attention to my Netflix queue, and when Joss Whedon s Much Ado About Nothing was released, I quickly flicked it to the top of the queue like I do all new releases without remembering that I had wanted to save it for when I actually read the play I was also saving Kenneth Branagh s for the same occasion Then the red envelope arrived and I couldn t let it sit there forever and I m certainly not going to waste a few days sending it back unwatched, What happened was, I hadn t been paying close attention to my Netflix queue, and when Joss Whedon s Much Ado About Nothing was released, I quickly flicked it to the top of the queue like I do all new releases without remembering that I had wanted to save it for when I actually read the play I was also saving Kenneth Branagh s for the same occasion Then the red envelope arrived and I couldn t let it sit there forever and I m certainly not going to waste a few days sending it back unwatched, so what is a fella to do other than to actually read the play And what a play it is Ostensibly about a guy named Claudio falling hot and heavy for a girl named Hero and a bastard villain who tries to thwart their romantic plans for no discernible gain seriously, find me someone who can explain Don John s motives here , this play is really about Beatric...Movie review at bottomThis is the most enjoyable play I ve yet read in my Shakespeare project Aside from the Elizabethan words that required me to check the footnotes, it had a very modern feel to it The complicated plot, the good and bad characters, the denouement, the happy ending all reminded me of light comedies that I ve seen performed on the modern stage.The play was probably written in 1598 In my Complete Work...

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06 January 2017

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