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Much Ado About Nothing

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Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John, drawing on gender and performance criticism to think about male bonding, the genre of comedy, and the impulses of modern performance.

Date Published: 30 October 2012
Contributors:
Emma Smith
In Collection(s): Early Modern Drama on the Page and Stage, William Shakespeare
Keywords:
shakespeare, criticism, literature, english, language, play, theatre, #greatwriters, Teaching, lesson, Key Stage 5
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: Much Ado About Nothing by Emma Smith at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/much-ado-about-nothing. Published on 30 October 2012. Accessed on 04 November 2025.

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