Article: 'Much Ado' about sparkling Shakespeare

Shakespeare wrote a bunch of great plays; we can all agree on that.

But when it comes to titles, sometimes he was a little bit weak.

Maybe the title had to be used for publicity long before he finished. Maybe, once he was finished, he didn't really care.

"Much Ado About Nothing," which opened over the weekend at the Long Beach Shakespeare company's Richard Goad Theatre in Bixby Knolls, is one of those plays. You know it's a comedy, but which one?

Save the suspense: It's the play about Beatrice and Benedick, the young would-be lovers who are so caught up in their battle of wits they don't recognize the underlying attraction. They are so busy jabbing each other, fighting with words they only ...

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