much ado about nothing / bbc (1984) // dvd

/MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING/ (1984)

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Dvd Region: 2+4 Pal (UK & Europe)
Certificate: U
Running Time: Approx. 148 minutes
Type: Fullscreen
Originally Transmitted: 22nd December 1984
Dvd Release Date: 2005
Released By: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Distributed By: DD Home Entertainment
Format: Colour Dvd Pal
Language: English
Subtitles: English sdh
Audio: Mono
Format: 4:3
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A COMEDIE
In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare’s plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors.

“Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.”
When homecoming warriors Claudio and Benedick turn their attentions to romance, friends, brothers and lovers are all soon found wanting. Claudio quickly becomes engaged to Hero, while Benedick quips and quarrels his way into her cousin Beatrice’s heart. But when Claudio is tricked into jilting his fiancée, Benedick is forced to choose between friendship and love . . .
This spirited production of the first of Shakespeare’s three great romantic comedies featured some of the favourite names of British television, Robert Lindsay and Cherie Lunghi perfectly enact the sparring wit of Benedick and Beatrice, and in Dogberry and Vesper – two of Shakespeare’s best-loved clowns are perfectly supported by Michael Elphick and Clive Dunn.

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"I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Aragon
comes this night to Messina....."
Cherie Lunghi & Robert Lindsay
with
Robert Reynolds
and
Michael Elphick and Clive Dunn

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
In Credits Order
Lee Montague ... Leonato
Tim Faulkner ... Messenger
Cherie Lunghi ... Beatrice
Katharine Levy ... Hero
Jon Finch ... Don Pedro
Robert Lindsay ... Benedick
Robert Reynolds ... Claudio
Gordon Whiting ... Antonio
Vernon Dobtcheff ... Don John
Robert Gwilym ... Conrade
Tony Rohr ... Borachio
Pamela Moiseiwitsch ... Margaret
Ishia Bennison ... Ursula
Oz Clarke ... Balthasar
Ben Losh ... Boy
Michael Elphick ... Dogberry
Clive Dunn ... Verges
Gorden Kaye ... First Watch
Perry Benson ... Second Watch
Roger Frost ... Member of Watch
Declan Mulholland ... Member of Watch
Stephen Wale ... Member of Watch
Graham Crowden ... Friar Francis
John Kidd ... Sexton
Simone Baker ... Dancer
Jean Pierre Blanchard ... Dancer
Nicola Keen ... Dancer
Philippa Luce ... Dancer
Bryan Payne ... Dancer
Barbara Rhoades ... Dancer
Trevor St. John Hacker ... Dancer
Peter Salmon ... Dancer
Clair Symonds ... Dancer

Director: Stuart Burge
Produced: Shaun Sutton
Adapted: William Shakespeare’s original play
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William Shakespeare
Hys Most Excellent
Comedie
MUCH ADO
ABOUT
NOTHING

ABOUT MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Much Ado About Nothing is not mentioned in the list of plays by Shakespeare given by Francis Meres in his Pallidis Tamia, published in the autumn of 1598. Certain speech-prefixes of the first edition, published in 1600, suggest that as Shakespeare wrote he had in mind the role of Dogberry the comic actor Will Kemp, who is believed to have left the Lord Chamberlain’s Men during 1599. Probably Shakespeare wrote the play between summer 1598 and spring 1599.
The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brother, the bastard Don John, in a military engagement. Apparently reconciled, they return to the capital, Messina, as guests of the governor, Leonato . . . . The play is based upon an old tale that existed in many variations, it had been told in Italian verse by Ariosto, in his Orlando Furioso (1516, translated into English verse by Sir John Harrington, 1591), in Italian prose by Matteo Bandello in his Novelle (1554, adapted into French by P. de Belleforest, 1569) in English prose by George Whetstone (The Rock of Regard, 1576), in English verse by Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queen, Book 2, canto 4, 1590) and several others.

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