BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard.
In Much Ado, the clarity of radio allows the wonderful verbal sparring between Beatrice and Benedick to sparkle as high comedy and melodrama mix magically in a combination of prose and verse.
Revitalised, original, and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the new millennium.
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"I LOVED THIS PLAY..its hilarious and I know (FINALLY) fully understand all of the allusions to this play in The Juliet Club and other books..I'm watching the movie version right now and Kenneth Branagah and Robert Sean Leonard so soo cutee! " — Adrianna (5 out of 5 stars)
"I LOVED THIS PLAY..its hilarious and I know (FINALLY) fully understand all of the allusions to this play in The Juliet Club and other books..I'm watching the movie version right now and Kenneth Branagah and Robert Sean Leonard so soo cutee! "
" One of the first Shakespeare plays I fell in love with (after Hamlet and Henry V), and it's still in my personal top three for the comedies (with The Tempest and Twelfth Night). "
" One of my all-time favorite plays, hands down. "
" Beatrice and Benedick are one of my favourite literary couples. Their scenes together sparkle with wit, and they come across as equals, which is quite remarkable for a play that was written over 400 years ago. "
" it was a action packed story line not like alex rider or james bond but a classic action packed book, studied it in depth in english "
" Messenger: I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.Lady Beatrice: No; an he were, I would burn my study. Shakespearean LOL! "
" Reading this book was like reading a romantic comedy. It was full of dramatic irony and complex characters who do everything to maintain their tough reputations, but are romantics on the inside. "
" 3.5 stars. Slow and confusing beginning. Hilarious and energetic 3rd and 4th act. 5 act begins well and then becomes soppy. However, it is short (about 2 hours) and the Watch scenes are as funny as anything Monte Python ever did. "
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.
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