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    Much Ado About nothing was a great film and I had the chance of watching three different versions of the production. From watching two films and a play, the actors bring the character to life. The characters were similar but different at the same time due to the fact that each production was set in a different time period. The version that I liked was the Kenneth Branagh film. The character that stood out to me in all three productions was Benedick and the type of character he was portrayed to be

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    The Great Beatrice In William Shakespeare’s play, Much Ado About Nothing, the main topic throughout the entire play is love. There are a couple different cases of people falling in love, but each happened a completely different way. Beatrice, a sharp, feisty woman, full of insults and witty jokes, is secretly looking for love just like everyone else. Beatrice is the niece of Leonato, and the first cousin of Hero, a beautiful and lovely maiden. Hero is a very vulnerable woman, unlike her cousin

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    Much Ado About Nothing The interesting witty lovers in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare has made the play far more romantic– being to wise and contempt. The two lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, explore an unconventional path of love in which deception brings them together as reflected in their syntactic expression. This can be seen through both being contemptuous of convention, their merry war which later becomes a declaration of love, ultimately caused by deception. This play has a

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    Shakespearean era. Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic comedy written by William Shakespeare and showcases a story about two people once divided by their past finally ending their hatred for one another and begin to fall in love for each other. It is a tale that shows how evil cannot destroy the love between two people. In this play, the reputation of a woman named Hero is at stake after being accused of disloyalty to her soon-to-be husband, Claudio. In Much Ado About Nothing, the important lesson

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    In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Leonato and Claudio, in the beginning, were good friends. Leonato was even going to let Claudio marry his daughter, Hero. But when Claudio says some shocking things about Hero. That is where their friendship takes a toll. Leonato serves a as the foil character of Claudio by which Claudio’s valores strengths are illuminated through Leonato’s combative weaknesses which influences Claudio’s actions. Leonato and Claudio have a few differences. For example

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    Act 3 in Much Ado About Nothing is most important to developing both the tragic and comedic aspects of the plot. Most importantly, the act has aspects of both comedy and tragedy. In scene 3.3 and 3.5 malapropisms are used with Dogberry and Verges a lot to create humor. Malapropisms are when the author substitutes words that either sound the same but are different words, or when he substitutes a word that is the complete opposite. These are used to show that Dogberry is a fool and out of order. Equally

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    In this essay I will be comparing Shakespeare’s original comedy play of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ to the 2005 BBC Shakespeare Re-told modern film adaptation. With the play created in 1598-1599, the way of living in the times when the two sources were created were very different. The original play, created in Elizabethan England was a time where woman had few rights and freedoms. Women were “owned” by fathers or husbands and were subservient to them. There was an elite aristocracy and people had limited

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    Many people are blinded by sweet gestures and pretty faces, but those things don't make love. In the book Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare there are two ¨ lovers ¨ named Claudio and Hero. They have many complications to their relationship that don't add up when placing their relationship in the “true love” category. After reading Much Ado About Nothing, a major conclusion from this book is that Claudio and Hero are not truly in love. First off, one of the most key aspects of a relationship

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    someone gets back at another person for something they have done to them. People take revenge all the time whether it be a very well thought out plan, or something as simple as cutting off someone who cut you off while driving. In the play “Much Ado About Nothing”, By William Shakespeare, revenge is a major theme, that occurs quite often. I too have fallen into the temptations of seeking revenge. I had an old friend a few years back, who i trusted with everything… little did i know she would do something

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    Much Ado About Nothing – Courtney Irving drama assignment The Queensland theatre company’s rendition of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ was a highly captivating piece of theatre, in which the director, Jason Klarwein stated that “this play is a beautifully controlled sensual look at love and lust. What people will do to get it and what people will do to avoid it.” Through the relationships between the entire ensemble of actors, more specifically, Christen O’Leary depicting Beatrice, and Benedick, portrayed

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