Much Ado About Nothing
Series: HarperAudio!
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1994 February 23
Language: eng
Format: Digital Audio
Description: We present excerpts from Shakespeare’s playful, stylish "Much Ado About Nothing," which brings together Beatrice and Benedick, one of the most famous duos ever invented for the stage. This 1963 performance features Rex Harrison and Rachel Roberts who bring new life to this sophisticated comedy of manners on the subject of marriage and marital bondage.
Table of contents: title: Part 1; title: In these opening scenes, Benedick and Claudio return home from the battlefield and are greeted by Beatrice, a young lady of the court, and Hero, the Duke’s daughter.; title: Part 2; title: In these scenes, Beatrice offers her views on marriage and men in general. In the meantime, the evil Don John is hatching a plot to slander Hero’s reputation.; title: Part 3; title: In these scenes, Hero, the daughter of the Duke, pretends to be dead so that those who spread lies about her may be exposed. At the same time, Beatrice and Benedick have each been convinced that the other is in love.; title: Part 4; title: In these final scenes, the lovely lady Hero is exonerated and reveals that she is alive, dashing the plot of her villainous uncle, Don John. Beatrice and Benedick profess their love for each other and are united in holy, but waspish, wedlock.