Deforming sources: literary antecedents and their traces in Much Ado About Nothing.(Critical Essay)

From: Shakespeare Studies | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Moisan, Thomas | Copyright information

IN ONE OF HER most verbally expansive moments in Much Ado About Nothing, Hero directs her attendant "gentlewomen," Ursula and Margaret, on where to have Beatrice positioned to overhear the "honest slanders" and other misrepresentations through which Beatrice is to be led to believe that Benedick loves her: 

   And bid her steal into the pleached bower, 
   Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun, 
   Forbid the sun to enter, like favorites 
   Made proud by princes, that adv...

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