Much Ado About Nothing (Dover Thrift Editions)
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Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most imaginative and exuberant comedies, contrasting two pairs of lovers in a witty and suspenseful battle of the sexes. Attracted to each other, the maddeningly skeptical Beatrice and Benedick are dead-locked in a lively war of words until their friends hatch a plot to unite them. The mutually devoted Hero and Claudio, on the other hand, all too quickly fall victim to a malicious plot to part them. Near-fatal complications ensue, but with the help of the hilarious Constable Dogberry and his confederates, the lovers are ultimately united.First presented in 1598, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's last comedies. Its darker undercurrents foreshadow the playwright's growing concern with the frailties of human character that would dominate his late tragedies. But in its clever turns of plot, vivacious displays of wit, jovial conversations, and charming songs, this merry comedy is among Shakespeare's most artistic creations.
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Left and right format is great, better than parsing footnotes, but find another version. Whoever was hired to "translate" from Elizabethan English for these likely doesn't know the Virgin Queen from Elizabeth Bennet. The right page modern language translation usually adds nothing, in many cases is an exact copy, but in a significant number of instances completely misses the meaning of the words and/or line. I suspect that the publisher hired an English major from a minor college, paid them peanuts, and got what they paid for: a lazy, careless translation. In Modern English, "these suck".