Read as part of my Project Gutenberg "Complete Works".

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Read this around a campfire tonight at a Shakespeare Night organized by a wonderful friend who always plans the best things! She’s wonderful too because she cast me as Dogberry, and I had a blast reading his lines.

I’ve been enamored of this play for many years, but I’d never actually read it. I’ve watched the adaptation with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson over and over, and I love the Joss Whedon version too. I remember seeing Whedon’s adaptation for the first time at the Wisconsin Film Festival and giggling my whole drive home, every time I thought of Nathan Fillion’s performance as Dogberry.

It’s a play full of ridiculous schemes, a romantic hero I want to punch, and the best enemies-to-lovers banter I’ve ever read. It’s fun to read and even more fun to see performed, so if you haven’t done either of those things, get on it, people! ( )

When I was a kid I read Shakespeare for school and I loved it, but this was almost 10 years ago, so I tried this one now after hearing that it was a lot like The Taming of the Shrew. It was better! I loved it, very funny and clever. ( )

Love this play but wow does Claudio never improve or come across as less of a dick each viewing and reading of it. ( )

Minack