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Comedy, tragedy and gender politics in Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing pits male bonding against heterosexual relationships. Emma Smith examines this conflict and the ways in which it threatens the play's status as comedy.
Summary of Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Benedick and Beatrice don't love each other but then they do. Claudio and Hero love each other but then they don't but then they do again. Everyone gets married.

Commedia dell’arte
Commedia dell’arte is a theatrical form characterized by improvised dialogue and a cast of colorful stock characters that emerged in northern Italy in the fifteenth century and rapidly gained popularity throughout Europe. The earliest known company formed in Padua in 1545.
Commedia Dell’Arte Masks
Pictures of the masks worn by the different Commedia dell'Arte characters.

Verbal LAZZI in Shakespeare's Plays
Italian culture and civilization were very influential in Elizabethan London. Contacts were made between companies of English
and Italian travelling players, especially in Paris, where the company known as the Gelosi spent considerable periods of time.
Othello dell' Arte": The Presence of "Commedia" in Shakespeare's Tragedy
Improvisation in Othello appears at once as the prerogative of the modern, self-defining individual, and as the predictable permutations of commedia-like stock figures.

Brick Shakespeare by John McCann; Monica Sweeney; Brothers Grimm; Becky Thomas
Call Number: GN SHAK
ISBN: 9781628737332
Publication Date: 2014-04-22
Explore four of Shakespeare's comedies like never before - with Lego bricks! This book presents Shakespeare's most delightful comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Tempest, in one thousand amazing color photographs. This unique adaptation of the world's most famous plays stays true to Shakespeare's original text, while giving audiences an exciting new perspective with the universally beloved construction toy.