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A Modern Perspective: Much Ado About Nothing | Folger Shakespeare Library

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A Modern Perspective: Much Ado About Nothing | Folger Shakespeare Library Skip to main content Search Shakespeare's plays and poems Submit Much Ado About Nothing / A Modern Perspective: Much Ado About Nothing By Gail Kern Paster Cuckoldry jokes are in the air in Messina. Its governor, Leonato, snatches one out of it when he jokes feebly about having to ask his wife repeatedly for reassurance as to his daughter’s legitimacy: PRINCE I think this is your daughter. LEONATO Her mother hath many times told me so. 1 ( 1.1.102 –3) Benedick draws our attention to this trace of an old suspicion: “Were y

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