The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback - 1998
by Shakespeare, William
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- Title The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing (Oxford World's Classics)
- Author Shakespeare, William
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford Paperbacks, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-04-02
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000766511
- ISBN 9780192834188 / 0192834185
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 5 x 7.6 x 0.8 in (12.70 x 19.30 x 2.03 cm)
- Reading level 1020
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.33
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Summary
Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover's trap" set for the arrogant and assured Benedick who has sworn of marriage and his gentle adversary Beatrice. The merry war between Benedick and Beatrice with the promptings of their friends soon dissolves into farcical love, while Hero's supposed infidelity is shown to be little more than "much ado about nothing".
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Much Ado About Nothing and the Romantic Comedies Shakespeare's three great romantic comedies, so widely studied and performed, can easily become too familiar.