Much Ado About Nothing

    • Written in 1598
    • Set in Messina, a city on the island of Sicily
      1. Benedick
      1. Beatrice
      1. Don Pedro
      1. Claudio
      1. Hero
      1. Don John
      1. O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.
      1. They say the lady is fair, 'tis a truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous, 'tis so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving me -
      1. I would my horse had the speed of your tongue
      1. Everyone can master a grief but he that has it
      1. Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love
      1. I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love.
      1. Get thee to heaven, Beatrice, get thee to heaven. Hell's no place for maids
      1. O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.
      1. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving
  • Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy play by William Shakespeare. Published in 1600, the play is considered by many to the prototype for contemporary romantic-comedies. Set in Messina, a costal town on the island of Sicily, the play concerns two pairs of lovers - the romantic leads Claudio and Hero and their bickering, comedic counterparts Benedick and Beatrice.

    The play has been adapted for film twice - as a 1913 silent film directed by Phillips Smalley and, in 1993, by actor and director Kenneth Branagh, who starred as Benedick opposite his then-wife Emma Thompson as Beatrice.

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