Beaucoup De Bruit Pour Rien
1600
Beaucoup De Bruit Pour Rien
1600
Translated by François Guizot
Two weddings are planned in sun-drenched Messina, but getting to the altar proves surprisingly treacherous. Claudio believes he has found pure love in Hero, until Don John's malice transforms devotion into public shame. Meanwhile, Benedick and Beatrice wage endless war with their wit, each too proud to admit the other has become indispensable. Their friends devise a dangerous experiment: make each believe the other is lovesick, and see if truth finally emerges from the masks they wear. What unfolds is Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedy, where nothing is as it seems and everything hinges on what people see, hear, and wrongly believe. The language crackles with double meanings, and the word 'noting' echoes through the play like a warning: we are all observers, and observation can save or destroy. The final act delivers one of theatre's most exhilarating reversals, where shame becomes celebration and the bitterest tongues must finally speak tenderness. Four centuries later, Much Ado About Nothing endures because it understands something essential about love: that we often recognize it too late, that pride makes us fools, and that the person we mock most might be the one we cannot live without.
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“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into hey nonny, nonny. Sing no more ditties, sing no more Of dumps so dull and heavy. The fraud of men was ever so Since summer first was leafy. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into hey, nonny, nonny.””
— William Shakespeare
“I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.'No, and if he were I would burn my library.””
— William Shakespeare
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.””
— William Shakespeare
“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.””
— William Shakespeare
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?””
— William Shakespeare
“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.””
— William Shakespeare
“For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?””
— William Shakespeare
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.””
— William Shakespeare
“He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.””
— William Shakespeare
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