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Much Ado About Nothing

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Approaching Shakespeare
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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.

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Approaching Shakespeare
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Emma Smith
Keywords
criticism
play
literature
theatre
language
shakespeare
english
#greatwriters
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 30/10/2012
Duration: 00:41:58

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