Descrizione
Level B2+volume + audio mp3
Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s most famous and brilliant comedies. Set in Messina, it is a tale of love, jealousy, deception, and misunderstanding. The reader is soon caught in a net in which humour and pathos alternate, following the stories of the main characters, Hero and Claudio, Beatrice and Benedick, but also the prince of Aragon and his wicked step-brother. The language will also appeal to the readers: the noble characters have clever, witty conversations, while lower class characters result irresistibly funny by saying paradoxical things. Readers will be both amused and moved and will have the chance to learn something new about the complexities of the human soul.
Teacher's Resources available online: Answer Key - Audioscripts - Key to Summing-up Activities.
Much Ado About Nothing è una delle commedie di Shakespeare più brillanti. Ambientata a Messina, è una storia d’amore e gelosia, di inganni ed equivoci. Il lettore viene subito catturato dallo humour e dal dramma nelle vite di Claudio e Hero, sua cugina Beatrice e Benedick, del principe di Aragona e del suo perfido fratellastro. Leggendo le conversazioni brillanti e spiritose dei personaggi nobili e ridendo dei paradossi comici dei personaggi di classe inferiore, ci si divertirà, ci si commuoverà e si imparerà qualcosa di nuovo sulla complessità dell’animo umano.
Indice
William Shakespeare4Chapter 1 – Someone falls in love8• Extension: The Elizabethan era20Chapter 2 – One love is declared and another one is in the air23Chapter 3 – A wicked plot37• Extension: Shakespeare’s themes and sources50Chapter 4 – A ruined wedding53Chapter 5 – Not one, but two weddings66• Extension: Elizabethan theatres, actors, and playwrights82SUMMING-UP ACTIVITIES85GLOSSARY91
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EditoreEdiscoPagine100ISBN97888441720399788844122034













