shakespearean comedy conventions
i have to do a speech on shakespeare’s much ado about nothing..?
In my speech I have to discuss a scene from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing & analyse how the complexity of character relationships has been adapted to Kenneth Branaugh’s 1993 film version.
It must discuss language forms & features as well as theatrical elements of both texts. It should also address how the conventions of Shakespearean comedy are conveyed in film.
Anyone who can help me I will give you best answer and it would be a GREAT help to me. Thanks!
Here’s a great link to ‘all things Shakespeare,’ where there are, for eight plays, usually side-by-side text (Elizabethan and modern– but there is no list of them right now. hmm.) and essays, critiques, FAQs, films, theatrical happenings then and now, and more.
http://www.shakespeare.com
Everything in gray there is a link. Pay attention to side columns and extras to expand here and there.
Without signing in at all, I saw these just now:
First click on ‘read Shakepeare’s plays’ –and at a list of 41 plays, see Much Ado About Nothing.
Also see, to the right under Navigate, ‘Shakespeare on Film.’
When you expand that, you can read at least a good part about the 1993 film.
There are also entries about how theaters have done Shakespeare.
And you can see ‘Much Ado About Nothing enotes,’ or perhaps from a tab up top: ‘eText (enhanced)’ which shows a separate link so you can read whatever scene you choose, as well as, if a word is underlined in red dashes, ‘a note entry’ or the glossary on it.
These plays, with a clearer font than Gutenberg, are printable, and downloadable with PDF.
There are, as you’ll see, also many essays and critiques and study guides, etc. …see what you can see for free, and what else you may need.
(It’s 9.95 for a month there, if you even need to pay anything.)
Good luck.
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