Performance Galleries

This Album continues our experimental sequence by creating a research model based on this site's data. It will show how to consolidate the range of data throughout the site by focus on a single play's performance history: in this case Much Ado About Nothing. Most of the following images were collected in about an hour, using the site's Galleries; and the remainder took scarcely longer, exploring recommended links (with similar educational purposes only). They illustrate the extraordinary range of characterizations, costumes, and settings which the play has evoked over the centuries, from Holbein's 16th c. Hampton Court to the British India of Queen Victoria. One use of these images might be to define the range of expressions of Beatrice and Benedick when paired, and to try to co-ordinate them in a sequence of feelings. Another might be to use the costuming of Benedick as a source of clues to his characterization. Alternatively: to what extent do the settings of the action suggest the play is a critique of high society? Remember that there are also three video clips (#9,10,11) of scenes from Much Ado in our Video Gallery. More to come!

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Much Ado: Triumph Theatre Productions, 1989. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 144	Much Ado: Triumph Theatre Productions, 1989, Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 137	Much Ado, Cheek By Jowl, June 1998 Date: 11/19/2010 Views: 170	Much Ado, Cheek By Jowl, June 1998 Date: 11/19/2010 Views: 178
Much Ado About Nothing: Program of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 1990. Date: 12/10/2010 Views: 354	Much Ado About Nothing: Program for Shakespeare Theatre Co. 2002. Date: 12/10/2010 Views: 106	Much Ado About Nothing: Bard on the Beach, 2004: the masked ball. Date: 01/14/2004 Views: 144	Much Ado About Noting: Shakespeare & Co., 2003. Hero: Stephanie Dodd. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 103
Much Ado: CST, 2003. Beatrice (Julie Eccles) mocks Benedick (Charles Shaw Robinson). Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 750	Much Ado: Don John (Andy Murray) as Villain. CST, 2003. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 756	Much Ado: Beatrice (Julie Eccles) in Love. CST, 2003. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 653	Much Ado: The Watch. CST, 2003. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 904
Much Ado: Engagement. CST, 2003. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 699	Much Ado: Final Dance. CST, 2003. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 706	Much Ado About Nothing: Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, 2007. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 138	Much Ado About Nothing: Shakespeare Festival, St. Louis, 2007. Dogberry: Steve Routman. Date: 05/20/2007 Views: 108
Much Ado About Nothing: Bard on the Beach 2010. Beatrice: Jennifer Lines; John Myrphy: Benedick. Date: 12/10/2010 Views: 115	U.C.B.'s Wheeler Hall Façade with Doors, Gallery, and Steps, fits Elizabethan staging (1996). Date: 04/21/2005 Views: 721	A Balcony Scene in Much Ado. Date: 12/08/2007 Views: 554	Mass Blocking: Claudio's Blind Choice of Wife in Act V. Date: 04/21/2005 Views: 616
"Engaged" is a new word and idea in Much Ado. Date: 12/08/2007 Views: 524	Dance as Finale was an Elizabethan Norm Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 721	Much Ado at the Globe, 1996 - ☀With an Introductory Essay☀ Date: 08/15/2007 Views: 517	F28 Mass Blocking Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 299
F35 The Excluded Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 304	G10 The Watch Advances to the Power-Centre Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 283	G37 Dance as an Emblem of Social Harmony Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 322	UBCSP Much Ado Program: Cast Musicians & Crew, 1996 Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 389

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