Fudging the Outcome of Much Ado About Nothing: How the Villains, Don Pedro and Count Claudio, Are Allowed to Stay and Dance.

This article asserts that in Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare lays open the rottenness within an arbitrary system of government but does not dare carry the plot to its logical conclusion. The responses to events by the dominant nobles, a prince and a count, are not merely foolish and damaging, but...

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Published in:Critical Survey Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 56 - 74
Main Author: Rapley, Paul
Format: Article
Published: Berghahn Books Spring2022
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