Much Ado About Nothing Context

Context

What’s  meant by ‘Context’ :

1. Historical Context:

the relationship between the ideas and events in the play and the time when the play was written.

2. Literary Context:

other texts and traditions of which the playwright was aware.

3. Text Context:

where and when the play was set by the playwright.

4. Audience Context:

ways in which interpretation and audience response reflect the different times and places in which the play was performed.

5. Performance Context:

every performance (on stage or screen) is a director’s interpretation of what Shakespeare wrote. A key decision by a director is where and when to set the play.

• Do NOT need to know about Shakespeare himself.
• DO need to know about Elizabethan society and ideas and their links to Much Ado.
• ^ Make perceptive, critical comments about the ways the contextual…