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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, quick introduction to the Shakespeare comedy aimed at the littl'uns,
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This review is from: Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Stories) (Paperback)
This is part of a terrific set of Shakespeare novelisations which render the plays accessible to younger readers. I find these are also terrific bedside stories because they're well paced, take about fifteen minutes each, and are scripted well enough to let the dramatist that lurks in all of us free, even if for just a quarter of an hour, and in low lighting (in my case, that's the best way, frankly).
Much Ado About Nothing is, like all Shakespeare's comedies, horrendously convoluted - mistaken identity and erroneous assumption is the primary driver of the comedy, after all - but I found this harder to convey out loud (it necessitated adopting at least six disctinct characters/voices, and then remembering which was which) than I did, for example, with the tragedies like Hamlet and Macbeth. On the other hand, for more delicate children Much Ado About Nothing is considerably less gruesome! Highly recommended, in any case: the way to buy these stories is by the boxed set, and while it appears to retail for something approaching $50, I've seen them about town for a quarter of that. Olly Buxton
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