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Much Ado about Nothing

Much Ado about Nothing. Fabio Pesaresi fpesaresi@alice.it. English drama. Mistery Plays Miracle Plays Morality Plays Interludes. Elizabethan drama. University Wits Spanish Tragedy (1885 c.) Popular theatre Propaganda theatre. Morality Plays. Moral teaching Allegorical stories

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Much Ado about Nothing

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  1. MuchAdoaboutNothing Fabio Pesaresi fpesaresi@alice.it

  2. English drama • Mistery Plays • Miracle Plays • Morality Plays • Interludes

  3. Elizabethandrama • UniversityWits • SpanishTragedy (1885 c.) • Populartheatre • Propaganda theatre

  4. Morality Plays • Moralteaching • Allegoricalstories • Everyman

  5. Jacobean London Visscher – c. 1616

  6. The Globe

  7. William Shakespeare

  8. 23rd april 1564 Isborn at Stratford-upon-Avon

  9. 1582 Marries Anne Hathaway

  10. 1592 Robert Greene: "...for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey"

  11. 1599 Constructionof the “Globe” Theatre 'Totus mundus agit histrionem'

  12. 23rd april 1616 Dies at Stratford-upon-Avon

  13. MuchAdoAboutNothing(1598-99)

  14. Messina Leonato Antonio Hero Beatrice

  15. Don Pedro ofAragon

  16. Don Pedro Don John Claudio Benedick

  17. Don John

  18. Ideal love: Claudio - Hero Couples

  19. Benedick and Beatrice The skirmish

  20. The masqued ball • Don Pedro courtsHeroforhis friend Claudio • Don John insinuates the Don Pedro is in love withHero

  21. Playing Friends wantBenedick and Beatrice tofall in love witheachother

  22. The deceit Don John makes Claudio and Don Pedro BelievethatHerohas a secret lover

  23. The repudiation Claudio believeshiseyes and rejectsHero on theirweddingday

  24. The stratagem Friar Francis proposestopretendthatHerohasdied:

  25. “what we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours”

  26. Love declared Benedickdeclareshis love to Beatrice whoreciprocates

  27. The proofof love Beatrice toBenedick: “Kill Claudio”

  28. The revelation The guardsdiscoverBorachioboastingabout the trickplayed

  29. Repentance Claudio repentsforharmingHero

  30. The “punishment” Claudio acceptsto: • Declarepubliclyhismistake • MarryLeonato’s niece, withoutseeingher

  31. The doublewedding Claudio and Hero

  32. Benedick and Beatrice

  33. Shakesperianthemes • Plots and sublots • Deceit • Evolutionofcharacters • Fightbetweengood and evil

  34. Puns • Mixtureofgenres and registers • Allegoricalmeaning

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