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Much Ado About Nothing Play Analysis

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From the start of Much Ado about Nothing, directed by Josie Rourke, starring David Tennant as Benedick and Catherine Tate as Beatrice you notice the modernized aspect of the play. The first scene you have Hero dancing to her Walkman as Beatrice enters. Just by looking at this scene here, you have complete casual dress. You have shorts, t-shirts and flip flops, completely from what Shakespeare’s modern dress was when the play was being written. After that scene you have the introduction of Pedro, Benedick, and Claudio. Pedro rides in on a golf cart with a completely amusing horn on it to start off his introduction to the play. When you first hear Tennant’s Scottish accent, you get put off by it, but as the scene goes on with Beatrice where she …show more content…

Benedick was dressed in drag, in one of the earlier scenes, which was very amusing especially to the audience as well. Just to name off a few things in the beginning scenes that was reoccurrence, like lines that were missing or switched between characters and so on. However, as far as the play as a whole goes I enjoyed watching it. The modern vibe of the play did me well, it really relates to the generation of who I am and teens that were born in the 90’s. I thought Tennant and Tate did a great job in this play, Claudio, who was Tom Bateman was also a great Claudio. Pedro was my fourth best, Adam James did quite a good job as well. I did not really enjoy Hero’s character too much, she was not pleasing to the eye and I did not get into her character as much as the others. It may have been the comic relief that all the others had, that she did not have. Benedick and Beatrice had so much comic relief that it kept you interested in the play itself. Even though, at times, it got kind of too elaborate with the modernized vibe of things. I thought after a while Rourke was trying too hard towards the middle/ending of the play to be too modern and I got bored with it. What kept my eyes peeled was Tate and Tennant with the comic

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