(A tragic scene as Hero was stabbed in “Much Ado about Nothing”.)

Last week in English 10, Luc and Anton from”Bard on the Beach,” came to our classroom inform us a little bit more about Shakespeare and his work. A lot of the activities were based around the play “Much Ado About Nothing,” It was an interactive three days which was fun. From the high energy of Luc, To the group exercises which consisted of creating tableau’s based on “Much Ado About Nothing”. Even the warm up was a fun, high energy and in general great way to start a morning with “Bard on the Beach,” One of the activities was a Shakespearean insult and compliment stand off. So I went up to someone and said a sentence were was a insult that Shakespeare used in one of his plays. The funny part was we then had to say the insult as a compliment which half sounded the same. Luc and Anton also taught me that there were four different play types like Comedy which often had love as a common theme, Romance which sounded like a love story, but Luc and Anton taught it was actually a play involving mystery and acts of supernatural, there were also tragedies which were based around betrayal and violence, and the last one was History which was about social class and true political events. “Much Ado about Nothing,” was a comedy as it had Benedick and Beatrice and Claudio and Hero having romantic relationships. The only part that could have used improvement was the repetive activities like the tableau. All though my most liked activity was the tableau I would of loved more activities. Luc and Anton taught me about the influence and impact that Shakespeare had on the English language and his though process about creating the plays. Though I get the premise of “Much Ado about Nothing,” I get confused about the character relations.