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Language Analysis in Much Ado | Shakespeare Learning Zone

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To help you look at any scene in Much Ado About Nothing and begin to analyse it, it’s important to ask questions about how it's written and why. Shakespeare’s plays are driven by their characters and every choice that’s made about words, structure and rhythm tells you something about the person, their relationships or their mood in that moment. You should always try and ask yourself, like actors do, why is the character saying what they are saying or doing what they are doing? What is their motive? Just like Detectives, we need to look for clues to help us answer those questions each time and below you can find some interrogation techniques we use to analyse text, introduced by the actors that use them. ANALYSING THE WORD PLAY Shakespeare has a lot of fun with language in Much Ado About Nothing. Most characters enjoy witty exchanges to display their humour and intelligence at some point. Witty banter ? is a playful way to compete, exchange insults or to flirt and, in the case of Beatr

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