"Sigh no more ladies"-the Song in Much Ado About Nothing: Shakespeare and Branagh Deliver Aural Pleasure

From: Literature/Film Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Sheppard, Philippa | Copyright information

In Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, the play's preoccupation with women's chastity is central to the plot. Many critics have dealt at length with the reactions expressed in the comedy to Hero's supposed betrayal of Claudio. Some critics have considered the implication of the remarkable number of cuckold jokes; Michael Mangan notes that the play is more obsessed with this idea than any other of its period (183). But Shakespeare also is concerned in this play with male chastity or fidelity...

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