Much Ado About Nothing Daily Analysis (x Teachers Talk Texts)

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Teachers Talk Texts x BEAR Quotes collaboration for Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare, published by Cambridge School Shakespeare, 2014) - co-authored with Victorian teacher, Clare Mackie

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Text summary from the 2022 VCAA Text List

One of Shakespeare’s comedies, this play features characters from all parts of the social spectrum. Although set in Messina, Italy, the cast of soldiers, nobles, civic officials and women are easily recognisable to the English audiences of Shakespeare’s time and the comedy is typical of Shakespeare’s world.

The text provides value in the verbal sparring between Beatrice and Benedick and the somewhat pathetic pomposity of the constable Dogberry. The treatment of Hero would be seen as outrageous by Tudor audiences, as she is framed by the wicked Don John and totally innocent of the charges which make her fiancé, Claudio, cruelly repudiate her. Today’s readers may be horrified to see the double standards of the men in the play who expect one type of behaviour from women and another from themselves. In exploring the fate of Beatrice and Benedick, as well as Hero and Claudia, the text also throws up issues relating to the nature of true love.