Ben Jonson

In Shakespeare’s comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, young love prevails despite many conflicts. A comedy can be defined as a literary structure that moves toward a happy ending and implies a positive understanding of human experience. Shakespeare employs the use of the elements of comedy to express that people make a big deal about things that do not matter. Much Ado About Nothing fits the mold of a comedy because it follows the rules of a comedy. Much Ado About Nothing follows two accounts of young

Introduction The film was on Amazon Online Video by Friday night. The movie is about “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare, it was production by Kenneth Branaghon. The author wrote this story to show us how important trust and loyalty are in any relationship by creating distrust just like the relationships between Hero, Claudio, Beatrice, and Benedick. They felt the love with different emotion through the ups and downs relationship. Costume Design “Most of the male characters in "Much

3) FILM AND COMEDY: Much Ado about Nothing 3.1) the setting of the film is in Messina, a city on the island of Sicily in southern Italy. In the film Messina is portrayed as a respite from the battlefield because it sets the scene for the play to take place in a holiday-like mood. Although most of the play occurs around Leonardo’s house, his orchard (garden) figures as a central place of action as well; language about the beautiful garden gives us a good feeling for the whimsical romance that characterizes

The Renaissance Era produced many great legends whose legacies left an impact on our society today. William Davenant was one of the important figures whose achievements helped to restore English literature. Those who are well versed in theater have long debated who William Davenant was and why he was important. William Davenant was rumored to be Shakespeare’s son, was crucial to the Restoration, and was a famous English poet and playwright who changed the scope of literature. Born in Oxford

Shakespeare has written many interesting plays, both comedic and tragic. One specific play, Much Ado About Nothing, is a comedy about two couples. In it, deception, as sometimes portrayed by the use of masks, is an important theme that propels all of the events of the play, but the deception shown in this play is neither positive nor negative, for it depends on the intentions of the deceiver. Whether it is during a masked ball, people pretending to be other people, or simply telling lies, deception

Much ado about nothing is a play written by William Shakespeare set in Sicily, Italy that tells the love story of mainly two very opposing couples and their conflicts. The story is set in a very visually utopian world that has a lot of emotional struggles. In 1993 Kenneth Branagh made an adaptation of the play by turning into a film and changing it a bit to appeal to the more modern day audiences. I will be discussing how the theme of love is portrayed in both the movie and the play and how both

Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic comedy narrating the story of Beatrice and Benidick, two people who are against romantic love, and the story of the soldier Claudio and Hero, the sole heiress to Leonato’s wealth. In addition to the play’s humour arising from the misnoting of events, Hero’s character also embodies the desirable characteristics of an ideal woman during Shakespeare’s time, including beauty and wealth, as well as silence and obedience. The ideal woman during Shakespeare’s

In the “plays” Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare uses vivid descriptions to portray Beatrice as quick-witted and independent towards society in order to criticize the treatment towards women like her. Shakespeare’s portrayals about the other characters’ perception towards Beatrice reveal how her personality and her behavior is displayed in the play. Throughout the plays, Shakespeare discusses the portrayal of Beatrice as quick-witted by using quotations and vivid descriptions. Beatrice mentions

When my grandfather died he said that he wanted to make sure I cared for and continued his coin collection; years later I have done this for him to honor what he told me to do. Honor is when keep an agreement, or you have a high respect for something. The playwright Much Ado About Nothing, about two love stories going through struggles of honor and doubts has a theme of honor involvement as well as, the poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” about six hundred men running into an unwinnable battle

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