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The night before the wedding, Claudio is tricked into thinking he saw Hero with another man. I loved the characters of Beatrice and Benedick and their interaction with each other.
I have a lot more to go to complete his works though. You can't have a play by Shakespeare without tons of backstabbing.
I'm telling you, Shakespeare has got to be the reason we have modern day soap operas. This is probably one of the better plays I've read by Shakespeare.
Claudio and Hero are set to be married. In the meantime, some people are trying to set up Beatrice and Benedick who do nothing but argue with each other.I found this comedy by Shakespeare quite witty.
There's definitely a lot of that in this one.
of the Renaissance on Roman life. Haha, ridiculous death scenes, but a great interp. enjoy a great play.
He enjoyed the book. I bought this as a gift. It arrived rather quickly (quicker than they said).
I suspect there were current events at the time of the first stage production of "Much Ado" that were hinted at in the play, providing the true comedy that is not obvious to the modern reader. "Merry Wives" had some real laugh out loud moments, even reading the script. There were, however, many quiet smirks as I read, from having seen similar behavior only 400 years removed from the penning of this manuscript. Although considered a comedy, this one lacks the sparkle of "Merry Wives of Windsor", "Loves' Labour Lost", or some of the others. Van Court These were conspicuous by their absence.
Still, it's better than ninety-nine percent of the dreck written in the past decade.E.M. Good but not great. It was a long slow wind-up of misunderstandings and heated emotions that resolves itself in the last scene. It comes across as protracted and deliberate misunderstandings, and has too much of a ring of truth to be hilarious.
The witty repartee between those characters also adds to the overall comedic feel of the play.The play is definitely a page-turner for those seeking for a lighter read. Unlike other Shakespeare plays, Much Ado About Nothing is a much lighter burden to read; it is not written in blank verse, and is easily understood by modern readers of all ages. While the play follows the typical Shakespearean plot of boy-meets-girl, boy-falls-in-love-with-girl, and quickly tips over a conflict, it does resolve to a happy ending at the end. It is Shakespeare's clever manipulation of the same plot and characters that gives new insight into each of the plays, however similar they might be. A Midsummer's Night Dream). Both its comedic elements and advancement of events come from the motif of deception. The follies committed by the characters invite the audience to laugh with them, instead of at them. Even the characters themselves are similar, with the blocking character, the lovers, the friar, the parents, etc.
It is a delightful read, departing from his historical or tragic works (i.e. Although the action of eavesdropping leads to multiple misunderstandings, some of which contribute to the conflict between Claudio and Hero, it does some good in uniting Benedick and Beatrice. Set in Messina, Sicily, "Much Ado About Nothing" is one of William Shakespeare's romantic comedies that depicts the love story and follies typical of any Shakespearean play. The dilemma in the story is reminiscent of those from a handful from Shakespeares' other plays: the false gossip from Othello, the separated lovers and the fake death from Romeo and Juliet, just to name a few. Antony and Cleopatra) and drawing it towards the genre of romantic comedies (i.e.
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