This play is a lively affair, as far as marriages go, as the actors run to and fro. The title could also be understood as Much Ado About Noting: much of the action centers around interest in written messages, spying, and eavesdropping - You know, pretty "Much" the usual Shakespearean glue that keeps relationships together in his plays. Nothing is also a double entendre: "an O-thing" (or "n othing" or "no thing") was Elizabethan slang for a part of a woman's anatomy men usually make a lot of "ado" about. Taken literally, the title implies that a great fuss ("much ado") is made of something which is insignificant ("nothing"), such as the unfounded claims both of Hero's infidelity, and that Benedick and Beatrice are in love with each other.
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The latter is set right (somewhat inadvertently), and the former blossoms, so marriages are agreed upon.Oh what a fun time it was back in the 17th Century! Shakespeare turns a lot of tricks here (our slang these days for commercial sex), and maybe he meant it that way also: Through "nothing" (meaning gossip, rumor, overhearing as in "noting"), Benedick (Taylor Evans) and Beatrice (Anna Hermanson) are tricked into confessing their love for each other Claudio (Raul Arambula) is also tricked into believing Hero (Morgan Mulford) is no maiden (he rejects her, therefore, at the altar). One of Shakespeare's First Folio plays published in 1623, the comedy is thought to have been written in 1599.
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You can see the full set of my photographs at. It was great to be back behind the lens for the Zephyr Theater's production of Much Ado About Nothing in Stillwater.
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