Much Ado About Nothing【電子書籍】[ William Shakespeare ]

＜p＞Much Ado About Nothing, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written probably in 1598?99 and printed in a quarto edition from the author's own manuscript in 1600. The play takes an ancient themeーthat of a woman falsely accused of unfaithfulnessーto brilliant comedic heights. Shakespeare used as his main source for the Claudio-Hero plot a story from Matteo Bandello's Novelle (1554?73); he also may have consulted Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. The Beatrice-Benedick plot is essentially Shakespeare's own, though he must have had in mind his own story of wife taming in The Taming of the Shrew. Leonato, a kindly, respectable nobleman, lives in the idyllic Italian town of Messina. Leonato shares his house with his lovely young daughter, Hero, his playful, clever niece, Beatrice, and his elderly brother, Antonio (who is Beatrice's father). As the play begins, Leonato prepares to welcome some friends home from a war. The friends include Don P．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る