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Much Ado about Nothing

Literary Classics

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General Fiction

Much Ado about Nothing

William Shakespeare

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Much Ado about Nothing

Length2h 8m

About this audiobook

Young Claudio has fallen for the lovely heiress Hero, who also loves him. Their path to the altar looks smooth, until the evil Don John intervenes. All ends happily, thanks to his incompetent assassins and the lucky discoveries of the bungling constable Dogberry. Central to the play, one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, are Beatrice and Benedick, masters of wit and sworn foes to marriage—until a plot is hatched to bring them together. Beatrice is played by Saskia Reeves, while Samuel West plays Benedick. Paul Jesson is Don Pedro, Jason O'Mara is Claudio, and Abigail Docherty is Hero. Dogberry is played by Bryan Pringle.

Audiobook details

GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction

Length2 hrs 8 mins

Narrated bya full cast, Samuel West, Amanda Root, Paul Jesson, Saskia Reeves, Steve Hodson, Jason O'Mara, Abigail Docherty, David Bradley, Bryan Pringle

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateJan 15, 2006

LanguageEnglish

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About the author

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.View all by William Shakespeare

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