Much Ado About Nothing

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.

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.

1. Written in 1598
2. Set in Messina, a city on the island of Sicily
3. Main Characters:
   1. Benedick
   2. Beatrice
   3. Don Pedro
   4. Claudio
   5. Hero
   6. Don John
4. Famous Speeches:
   1. O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.
   2. 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 -
5. Famous Quotes:
   1. I would my horse had the speed of your tongue
   2. Everyone can master a grief but he that has it
   3. Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love
   4. I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love.
   5. Get thee to heaven, Beatrice, get thee to heaven. Hell's no place for maids
   6. O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.
   7. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving

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• 1937: Much Ado About Nothing

• 1973: Much Ado About Nothing (Sam Waterson)

• 1984: Much Ado About Nothing (TV)

• 1993: Much Ado About Nothing

• 2005: Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)

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