Much Ado About Nothing – A comparison of the play as a text with a filmed version of the same

Identifier:  TFG:4362

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TFG4362

Authors:  Castellví Soriano, Marina

Abstract:
Film adaptations of literary classics have often been subject to prejudgement and even discredit. This dissertation compares Much Ado About Nothing, the comedy by Shakespeare, and its adaptation in a 1993 film by Kenneth Branagh. By working on these two media, play and film, the principal purposes of this project are to study the adaptation process by analysing how the version modifies the real text and the effect of these modifications. By citing many experts’ opinions in reviews, essays, and books to study how critical opinion reacted to the fidelity of Branagh’s adaptation, it is found that this version is universally admired and respected by the spectator.