"Much Ado About Nothing" - comedy by William Shakespeare. go here to a single playlist of all the Shakespeare for SATS 2008: More

"Much Ado About Nothing" - comedy by William Shakespeare. go here to a single playlist of all the Shakespeare for SATS 2008: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CD0A18B0C22EF0A4 Robert Lindsay ... Benedick Cherie Lunghi ... Beatrice Lee Montague ... Leonato Graham Crowden ... Friar Francis Robert Reynolds ... Claudio Katharine Levy ... Hero Pamela Moiseiwitsch ... Margaret Ishia Bennison ... Ursula Director: Stuart Burge Good morrow Benedihe, why what's the matter? That you haue fuch a Februarie face, So full of froft, of norme, and clowdinefie Three comments by Lady Martin ("On Some of Shahespeare' s Female Characters", Edinburgh, 1891): Lady Martin: (p. 324) Though well pleased that he is no longer required to call his old freind to account, Benedick take care to show, by his coldness and reserve, that he considers their behaviour to have been unjustifiable, even had the story been true which Don John had beguiled them into believing. When the Prince rallies him about his ' February face,' he makes no rejoinder. But when Claudio, with infinite bad taste, at a moment when his mind should have been full of the gravest thoughts, attacks him in the same spirit, Benedick turns upon him with caustic severity. The entrance of Hero, with her ladies, masked, arrests what might have grown into hot words. Lady Martin: (p. 325) : Hero accepts Claudio with a ready forgiveness, which, I feel very sure, Beatrice's self-respect, under similar circumstances, would not have permitted her to grant. Such treatment as Claudio' s would have chilled all love within her. She would never have trusted as her husband the man who had allowed himself to be so easily deceived, and who had openly shamed her before the world. Hero, altogether a feebler nature, neither looks so far into the future, nor feels so intensely what has happened in the past. Lady Martin: (p. 325) : To my thinking, Hero's prospect of lasting happiness with the credulous and vacillating Claudio is somewhat doubtful. I have no misgivings about the future happiness of Benedick and Beatrice, even although they learn how they have been misled into thinking that each was dying for the other, and up to the moment of going to the altar keep up their witty struggles to turn the tables on each other. ... In this last encounter, Beatrice, as usual, has the best of it, but Benedick is too happy to care for such defeat. He knows that he has won her heart, and that it is a heart of gold. He can therefore well afford to smile at the epigrams of ' a college of wit-crackers,' and the quotation against himself of his former smart sayings about lovers and married men. His home, I doubt not, will be a happy one, — all the happier because Beatrice and he have each a strong individuality, with fine spirits and busy brains, which will keep life from stagnating. They will always be finding out something new and interesting in each other's character. As for Beatrice, at least, one feels sure that Benedick will have a great deal to discover and to admire in her as he grows to know her better. She will prove the fitness of her name as Beatrice (the giver of happiness), and he will be glad to confess himself blest indeed (Benedictus), in having won her. Claudio and Hero marry and all is resolved (SATS 2008) 'Did I not tell you she was innocent?' to 'Strike up, pipers!'
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The play is about 3 veteran gamers looking forward to going to the MLG to compete in supersmashbrothersbrawl. Sam is a WOW player who has a way with More

The play is about 3 veteran gamers looking forward to going to the MLG to compete in supersmashbrothersbrawl. Sam is a WOW player who has a way with hookin up with women. Whack is a hyperactive DDR player who is always amped up on redbull. Mark is your lovable loser who is most excited about winning at the MLG. At the tournament these gamers meet 3 gamerchicks who show them a thing or two about gaming. How will these Nintendorks adjust to the concept of girls in the competitive gaming ...
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