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Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
The title to ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ is a dirty double pun. One pun is that nothing can refer what a woman has between her legs, and another is that in Elizabethan England, ‘nothing’ was pronounced the same as ‘note-ing’, which also meant to prick a stringed instrument, and so the title could be read as ‘much ado about pricking’. But noting is also to take note of, and it is because Beatrice and Benedict spy on other people and take note of what they say that they end up being tricked into realizing that they are in love with one another, and it is because of Claudio and the prince take note of what Borachio and Margaret say to one another that much trouble occurs. So there is much ado about noting falsehoods, which are after all nothings, and there is much ado about who should prick who and, for the men at least, about those eternally desirable nothings.
I totally loved this play.
Dogberry, Beatrice, and Benedick are brilliant and funnier than an ape dressed in motley.
I totally loved this play.
Dogberry, Beatrice, and Benedick are brilliant and funnier than an ape dressed in motley.