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Much Ado about Nothing: Critical Essay by Walter N. King

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William Shakespeare
About 24 pages (7,158 words)
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SOURCE: King, Walter N. “Much Ado About Something.Shakespeare Quarterly 15 (1964): 143-55.

In the following essay, King maintains that Much Ado about Nothing is a comedy of manners, and that like other plays of this genre its central theme is the examination of a morally “flabby” aristocratic class that accepts the established social codes without question.

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