Much Ado about Nothing by William

Shakespeare

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Original Title: Much Ado about Nothing

ISBN: 1932219250
ISBN13: 9781932219258
Autor: William Shakespeare/Samuel West (Narrator)/ Amanda Root (Narrator)/ Arkangel Cast
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Original Format: Audio CD, 18 pages
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Published: November 30th 2005 / by BBC Audiobooks America / (first published 1598)
Language: English
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Description:

This sparkling comedy of manners revolves around the amorous adventures of two couples,
gentle Claudio and Hero, who want to marry, and the warring Beatrice and Benedick, who think
they don't. This witty romp is one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies.

About Author:

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely
regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He
is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving
works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His
plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than
those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. Scholars believe that he died on his
fifty-second birthday, coinciding with St Georges Day.
At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins
Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor,
writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the
King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later.
Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation
about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were
written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were
mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the
end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet,
King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the English language. In his
last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other
playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during
his lifetime, and in 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a
collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as
Shakespeare's.
Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to
its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed
Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that
George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly
adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain
highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and
political contexts throughout the world.
According to historians, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets throughout the span of his
life. Shakespeare's writing average was 1.5 plays a year since he first started writing in 1589.
There have been plays and sonnets attributed to Shakespeare that were not authentically written
by the great master of language and literature.

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Much Ado About Nothing, abridged.
CLAUDIO: So, um, Hero, I sorta maybe like you a whole lot will you go to the prom with me?
HERO: We should get married! Squeeeeeee!
BEATRICE: Pfft. Love is for stupid losers who are stupid.
BENEDICK: You know, you might get laid more often if you werent such a cynical bitch all the
time.
BEATRICE: Fuck you.
BENEDICK: Get in line, sugartits.
*audience is beaten over the head by sexual tension*
DON PEDRO: Hey everybody, I had a great idea! Lets make Beatrice and Bene
Much Ado About Nothing, abridged.
CLAUDIO: So, um, Hero, I sorta maybe like you a whole lot will you go to the prom with me?
HERO: We should get married! Squeeeeeee!
BEATRICE: Pfft. Love is for stupid losers who are stupid.
BENEDICK: You know, you might get laid more often if you werent such a cynical bitch all the
time.
BEATRICE: Fuck you.
BENEDICK: Get in line, sugartits.
*audience is beaten over the head by sexual tension*
DON PEDRO: Hey everybody, I had a great idea! Lets make Beatrice and Benedick fall in love!
EVERYONE: YAY! MEDDLING!
PRINCE JOHN: So, I think Im going to break up Claudio and Hero.
BORACHIO: Really? Thats your dastardly scheme? How do we possibly benefit from that?
PRINCE JOHN: No, see, I dont like Claudio because my half-brother likes him, and I hate my half
brother, sowait. Okay, so its actually a really pointless plan that only serves to create conflict.
But its the only way I get any good scenes in this thing, so MISCHIEF AHOY!
BORACHIO AND CONRADE: YAY!
BEATRICE: Hey Benedick, you still suck donkey balls.
BENEDICK: I fart in your general direction! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
BEATRICE: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper!
PRINCE JOHN: So guess what Claudio? Your woman totally cheated on you. I saw, I was there.
CLAUDIO: OMG I HATE THAT WHORE.
DON PEDRO: Despite the fact that hes a bastard in all senses of the word and has no reason to
be helping me or my friends, I think we should believe John without proof or even asking Heros
side of the story.
CLAUDIO: Hero, youre a shameless whore and I hate your stupid face!
EVERYONE: WTF?!
PRIEST: Great job, now Heros dead from sad.
CLAUDIO: OMG I AM SO REMORSEFUL. FORGIVE ME, DEAD HERO!
HERO: Pysche! Im really okay!
BEATRICE: Luckily THIS time the priests idea to fake a girls death to solve all her problems
actually worked, instead of backfiring horribly.
BENEDICK: Hey, thats pretty funny. You know, I guess youre not that bad. I think I love you, and
stuff.
BEATRICE: Yeah, I guess I kind of love you too.
ANTONIO: Close enough. Now off to kill Prince John!
EVERYONE: YAY!
THE END.
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Okaylucy
this is so perfectly accurate

Jan 02, 2017 01:46AM

Braeson Holland
... damn. Accurate.

Jan 04, 2017 11:10AM