Much Ado About Nothing Staged: the origins of YA’s greatest tropes Synopsis
With a foreword by Holly Bourne, author of Am I Normal Yet?
‘I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest’
Love, deception and discord are flourishing in the court of Messina.
Sweet, innocent Hero and the famed soldier Claudio are immediately infatuated, while the bickering Beatrice and Benedick can agree on just one thing: the other is insufferable. Little do they know, two plans are afoot – one to make Beatrice and Benedick fall in love, another to break up Hero and Claudio.
Much Ado About Nothing is Shakespeare’s witty comedy of words where sharp-tongued enemies become lovers and sweet romance turns sour.
Discover STAGED, a limited collection of Shakespeare’s unabridged plays that celebrates the genius of the Bard and the tropes that continue to delight YA readers to this day.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780241682050 |
| Publication date: |
14th March 2024 |
| Author: |
William Shakespeare |
| Publisher: |
Puffin an imprint of Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
224 pages |
| Series: |
Staged |
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About William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later.
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