Project Gutenberg 2005-05-17 Public domain in the USA. 82 Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 Shakspeare, William Shakspere, William Guizot, François 1787 1874 Guizot, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, M. (François) Guisot, M. (François) Guizot, Monsieur (François) Guizot, François Much ado about nothing. French Beaucoup de Bruit pour Rien Reading ease score: 83.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Paul Murray, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) "Beaucoup de Bruit pour Rien" by William Shakespeare is a comedy written in the early 17th century. The play explores themes of love, deception, and misunderstanding, revolving around a cast of characters including the witty Bénédick and the sharp-tongued Béatrice, who engage in a battle of wits while love blooms amidst their banter. The backdrop of the story is set in Messina, where complicated romantic entanglements unfold. At the start of the play, we are introduced to the characters and the setting as Léonato, the governor of Messina, prepares for the arrival of Don Pèdre and his companions, including Claudio and Bénédick. Claudio has fallen in love with Léonato's daughter, Héro, while Bénédick and Béatrice display their well-known verbal sparring. A messenger informs Léonato of Claudio's honors in battle, leading to anticipation for Don Pèdre's visit, during which further romantic developments and schemes will take place. The conversation among the characters establishes their personalities and hints at the comedic misunderstandings that will arise as the plot unfolds. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Comedies Rejection (Psychology) -- Drama Conspiracies -- Drama Courtship -- Drama Messina (Italy) -- Drama PR Text FR Théâtre Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 220716 218528 2024-10-07T07:35:08.140008 2023-09-07T08:47:21.504687 text/html text/html 213279 2020-12-14T12:04:55 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 74255 2020-12-14T12:04:55 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 150740 2024-10-07T07:35:15.835984 application/epub+zip 153303 2024-10-07T07:35:11.353993 application/epub+zip 145244 2024-10-07T07:35:10.029002 application/epub+zip 276287 2024-10-07T07:35:18.856960 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 270407 2024-10-07T07:35:15.009971 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 242027 2022-09-08T00:00:25.725571 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 184706 184503 2024-10-07T07:35:07.134041 2023-09-07T08:47:20.610697 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 180340 2020-12-14T12:04:55 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 68947 2020-12-14T12:04:55 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 22099 2024-10-07T07:35:18.992947 application/rdf+xml 9986 2024-10-07T07:35:10.606990 image/jpeg 2777 2024-10-07T07:35:10.309004 image/jpeg 146348 2024-10-07T07:35:08.158020 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia