His use of puns in Much Ado About Nothing is worth "noting". Basically everything that happened in the play was set up by the characters and nothing withheld any credibility. ... Don Pedro is telling Claudio about the plot: What need the bridge much broader than the flood The fairest grant is the necessity Look What will serve is fit. ... Bishop 5 Indeed this play is a lot to do with nothing and "noting". ... The validity of the statement does not seem to concern them much until they find out by some other word of mouth that it was false. ...

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William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" is a romantic comedy which tells the love stories of the main characters Claudio and Hero, and Beatrice and Benedick. ... At the time Shakespeare wrote this play, at about 1599, Elizabeth I was queen of England. ... With Benedick and Beatrice their love is much more explosive, with the personalities of the two characters clashing from the start of the play. ... Beatrice's intelligence poses a challenge to all the male characters, and in particular, she and Benedick have arguments whereby they both try to tell the wittiest comment about ...

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Much ado about nothing is, in my opinion, William Shakespeare's best comedy. ... He says,""I may chance have some odd quirks and remains of wit broken on me, because I have rail'd so long against marriage."" (2.3.235-7) Although by this point, Benedick is changing his mind about marriage, this still emphasizes his previous views on women and marriage. Beatrice also feels the same way that Benedick does about marriage. ... A good example is when Beatrice is about to enter and Benedick says, "Will your Grace command me any service to the worlds end? ... Benedick and Beatrice are ...

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On the cultural front, the printing press, invented about a hundred years before, was fundamentally changing the way literature reached ordinary people. ... As You Like It was written in this year, just after Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and Julius Caesar, and just before the writing of Hamlet in 1600. Unlike many of Shakespeare's plays, As You Like It seems to contain few references to the world outside the theatre; unlike the political history Shakespeare reworked in his "history plays," or the commentaries on kingship and power that pervade his tragedies, Shakespeare's comedy ...

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