Much ado about Nothing

This sounds a bit like a Seinfeld episode although Shakespeare did get in first.  My reading of this play in the original Shakespearean seems to be getting better as I got the gist fairly well.  I did  not pick up any well known lines that get quoted through the ages though.  This play is another one of these love sit coms that gets twisted and then unravelled.  Basically two suave soldiers are in love with two daughters of well healed gentlemen.  The fathers are in full agreement but the brother of one of them is a villain and wants to disrupt these merry plans, so he uses bribery and contrives various devices to trick the lovers that their partner is unfaithful. The main impostor is over heard in a drunken state bragging about his role and how he was paid.  So in the end it comes out that the nuptualists are all innocent and everyone lives happily ever after, except the bastard brother who is apprehended while on the run. To be continued at the pop Up.

London Globe