Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library)

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Essay by Gail Kern Paster

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What Customers Say About Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library):

pulling out the tooth). It is very good. It translates to current english, but it does not have the explanation of a few expressions of the time (i.e. However, there are pictures that explain works of art and important events not realted to the play, and it gives somewhat of a background information. This is the best book after SparkNotes'.

This is probably one of the better plays I've read by Shakespeare. You can't have a play by Shakespeare without tons of backstabbing.

The night before the wedding, Claudio is tricked into thinking he saw Hero with another man. Claudio and Hero are set to be married.

I'm telling you, Shakespeare has got to be the reason we have modern day soap operas. 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.

I loved the characters of Beatrice and Benedick and their interaction with each other. There's definitely a lot of that in this one.

I have a lot more to go to complete his works though.

Haha, ridiculous death scenes, but a great interp. of the Renaissance on Roman life. enjoy a great play.

I bought this as a gift. He enjoyed the book. It arrived rather quickly (quicker than they said).

Still, it's better than ninety-nine percent of the dreck written in the past decade.E.M. It comes across as protracted and deliberate misunderstandings, and has too much of a ring of truth to be hilarious.

Although considered a comedy, this one lacks the sparkle of "Merry Wives of Windsor", "Loves' Labour Lost", or some of the others. It was a long slow wind-up of misunderstandings and heated emotions that resolves itself in the last scene.

Good but not great. 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. These were conspicuous by their absence.

There were, however, many quiet smirks as I read, from having seen similar behavior only 400 years removed from the penning of this manuscript. Van Court