William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. Claire McEachern

• Herb Weil

The Arden3 edition of Much Ado About Nothing edited by Claire McEachern provides the competent thorough notes and introduction that one expects from this series. Particularly strong are references to some of those aspects mentioned in the opening paragraph of the introduction, “one of Shakespeare’s most delightful heroines, his most dancing word-play, . . . undoubtedly the most socially and psychologically realistic of his comedies.” Notably absent is similar discussion of the possible virtues of Benedick as he moves away from “a world governed, even poisoned, by male rivalry” to become, for many, an unusually well-matched partner for Beatrice. The editor discusses much more fully and convincingly the social contexts that contribute to such realism than those that support the “psychological”.

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