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lareinenoire

30 Days of Shakespeare, Day 8

Jul 27, 2010 16:42

Day #8: Your favourite comedy - Much Ado About Nothing

Twelfth Night is one of my favourite memories from undergrad -- it was my first big role and the cast had this really amazing rapport that lasted long after the production ended. Possibly I only feel this way because I was seventeen years old and life had been extremely boring before that ( Read more... )

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fuunsaiki July 27 2010, 20:50:23 UTC

DRIVE-BY USERPIC POSTING!

tiggerbone July 27 2010, 21:02:33 UTC

I do indeed adore Much Ado About Nothing, especially the nothing/noting pun in the title. But Hero just drives me insane! Aaugh!

fuunsaiki July 27 2010, 21:11:17 UTC

The whole Claudio/Hero relationship is a problem. There's that bit in the first scene where he says "I always liked her, but it's only now we're not fighting soldierly battles anymore that I'm going to let myself fancy her". For their relationship to work without me getting REALLY CROSS at Hero, I simply have to assume - for myself - that they were at the very least pretty friendly before the play began. Without any sort of justifying history, it doesn't really sit comfortably for a modern audience. D: