Playful and cunning, these Shakespeare adaptations breathe new life into four classic plays. Macbeth is the chef in a three-star restaurant. Beatrice and Benedick are rival co-anchors on a nightly newscast. Titania and Bottom revel together in a theme resort called Dream Park. The eccentric Petr...
Top quote:“I do love nothing in the world so well as you” (Benedick) Former foes Beatrice and Benedick have been conned into believing they adore each other, and now he openly admits that he does. She’d clearly reciprocate but for the crisis that has just brought them together. Her ...
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Beatrice and Benedick. It is this range which allows Shakespeare to critique the conventions and perceptions within his renaissance society This variance inloveand lovers also serves to inform the audience of the many different faces of love, and to further the plot, for example it is Margaret's...
One of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, Much Ado about Nothing contrasts the happiness of lovers Claudio and Hero, and the cynicism of sparring partners Beatrice and Benedick, who are united in their scorn for love. Trickery plays a large part in the story, as Beatrice and Benedick are ...
With "Much Ado About Nothing", Shakespeare advanced his art, rendering the romantic comedy with greater elegance of composition and expression. The vividly depicted Beatrice and Benedick make it a play of character rather than situation, as the threats to romance are eventually banished and ...
Brave young Claudio and Leonato s pretty daughter Hero are in love and want to marry, but Don John has a wicked plan to stop their wedding. Will he succeed, or will the truth come out? Will Claudio and Hero marry, after all? Beatrice and Benedick are always arguing with each other, ...
“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.” –Much Ado About Nothing,Act 5, Scene 2 Beatrice loves Benedick. Benedick loves Beatrice. So what’s the problem? Feel the joy of love won and the ache of love lost as this story makes you laugh, breaks your heart, and then somehow put...
Here the barriers to romantic understanding are inner and psychological and must be defeated by the good-natured plotting of their friends, who see that Beatrice and Benedick are truly made for one another in their wit and candour if they can only overcome their fear of being outwitted by ...
The sonnets cover such themes as the passage of time, love, infidelity, jealousy, beauty and mortality. The first 126 are addressed to a young man; the last 28 are either addressed to, or refer to a woman. (Sonnets138and144had previously been published in the 1599miscellanyThe Passionate ...