SOURCE: Hunt, Maurice. “The Reclamation of Language in Much Ado about Nothing.” Studies in Philology 97, no. 2 (spring 2000): 165-91.
In the following essay, Hunt studies the characters' usage of patriarchal speech in Much Ado about Nothing, demonstrating the way in which this type of speech establishes social dominance through the transformation, dismissal, or oppression of the words and thoughts of others.
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