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  | 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Gloucester Catalog: Book Release date: 1986-06 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 100 Ean: 9780563203384 Book Isbn: 0563203382  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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| Part of the "New Penguin Shakespeare" series, this book offers a complete edition of "Much Ado About Nothing". It has been prepared from the original texts and is accompanied by an introduction, a list of further reading, a full commentary, and a short account of the textual problems of the play. |
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 Written on January 7, 2008 Summary: Great Movie It's Shakespear, it's a great story. Plus it is fun to see the actor who played Prof. Gilroy in the Harry Potter movie, doing something different. He is wonderful in this movie as so are the rest of the actors.  Written on December 27, 2007 Summary: Good If you like shakespeare, this movie is done in that language with its classic humor and wit and some brief nudity. Written on December 2, 2007 Summary: Deserving Much Ado I have seen this film several times, and remain delighted by the success of its portrayal of communal joy, bitterness, dignity, generosity and grace; the shy pain that accompanies the absence of love; and the courage that love can bring as it changes us. Shakespeare wrote it, but Kenneth Branagh's production and acting crystallize the viewer's pleasure. Emma Thompson is superb in her portrayal of a clever, clever young woman. Denzel Washington emanates noble grace. Written on September 10, 2007 Summary: Great recreation of the play The movie follows the play very closely with an all star cast. Great teaching aid to use with a class! Written on August 27, 2007 Summary: Who said there was one better playwright than Shakespeare? Shakespeare and his entangled love affairs are as famous as Dracula and his blood cult. But we recognize here the friar who advises a fake death to the girl and we remember that Romeo and Juliet came first in 1596. Shakespeare started with the tragedy around the clandestine marriage of the two heroes, and then moved on to a comedy that sounds at time very tragic, Much Ado About Nothing in 1598, and he doubles the merriment by having two weddings. And he will go on with As You Like It in 1600 and its four marriages under the auspices of the thrice crowned goddess Diana. And this was a model of perfection that he had kept from A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1594. But this present comedy could have been a drama at least if not a tragedy since the death being false, based on a false accusation what's more, could have led to a duel and one real death before being discovered as a fake, and it leads to the arrest of the villain who had arranged the fakery so that a happy love wedding was turned into a dramatic denunciation of the impurity of the bride. That's probably why he doubled the first line of action with a second that reminds us of The Taming of the Shrew (1593) and that second line will lead to the second marriage that will bring everyone, except the plotter, to merriment, gaiety and dancing. But this production is admirable because the setting of the play in a real garden and rich mansion in more or less renaissance clothing though it could be slightly more recent gives to the actors all the space they need to dance, play, hide, run, and many other things. The acting is admirable and they really make the language sing the way it should, sing joy as well as pain, sing sadness as well as happiness. Of course the language is also a little bit difficult but we get used to it very fast and we follow the music of it as well as the words, and the actors were directed into speaking as if they were singing, to the point of even having a failed attempt at real singing that sounds like a cat being disemboweled. And the final but suspended lack of clemency against the guilty plotter is there to remind us that everything may end with songs and dances, but there is always some drama to bring to an end sooner or later, and in that case outside the time limits of the play. But yet I always wonder about what such comedies, or tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, could look like in Shakespearean times when women were not allowed on the stage. So many girls played by teenagers must have been funny, with an echo in the play when Beatrice speaks of men with a beard or men without a beard and the latter are less of a man than she would ever like. That was said by a man without a beard in 1598. I guess we would find it funny and even maybe ridiculous today. But it should be attempted. Shakespeare played on the situation quite often with varying motivations. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines |
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