I am currently studying this book in one of my English Lit lectures and I have to say it is pretty damm hilarious. Beatrice and Benedick are so witty and sarcastic practically every line they say is just cracking me up! Nice to know decent comedies have been alive and well for centuries (although we could do with a few better ones these days!)
THat's my favorite of Shakespeare's works! I used to have the whole scene memorized where the profess their love for each other... Beatrice is my hero..hehe... I actually loved the name Hero for a girl.
I love it how at the start she just randomly butts into the mens conversation with some incredibly dirty comment (cant remember exactly what now) but OMG, its so rare to have a heroine with real wit in a play (esp from Elizabethan times) I just love it!
We only get to do the more boring ones at school - Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Lear etc. Will have to read that some time.
Oh God, I had to do 'Merchant of Venice' at high school was well. God it was an awfull way to be introduced to Shakespeare. But Much Ado really is fantastic, its good to act in as well, I had to help my lectuters out by acting out the part of Hero in a scene they wished to show us lecture students. It was awesome being part of it.
We had to watch some awful version of it with Keanu Reeves. Who can't act. And they kept going "hey nonny nonny" which I never really understood. AH well... I'm going to stop talking now because my stoopid boyfriend is insisting on checking the Arseholenal website.
hahaha in my shakespeare class my teacher showed us that in order to show us that not every actor can be a shakespearean actor... keanu is such a tool anyway though so it's really not much different from any other movie he is in. as a whole that film version wasn't bad though! anything branagh does can't be that bad. whoever said Hamlet was boring should rethink that statement.
A lot of Shakespeare's characters have wonderful wit and humor. Feste in a "Twelfth Night; or,what you will" (which is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays) is hilarious. He's one of my favorite Shakespeare characters.
