Source: "The Turns of the Dance: An Essay on Much Ado About Nothing," in Shakespeare In His Time and Ours, University of Notre Dame Press, 1968, pp. 212-26.
[In the following essay, Siegel illustrates the affinities between Much Ado and "a formal dance in which couples successively part, make parallel movements and then are reunited." The critic demonstrates how love itself, Within the context of this play, might be likened to a dance, in which there is an unending succession of dancers who complete their movements with each couple united as they ought as the musicians strike up music for a new dance, the wedding dance.]
Much Ado About Nothing is like a formal dance in which couples successively part, make parallel movements and then are reunited. Although some of the figures performed in this.....
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