Much Ado About Nothing

Act I,Scene I: Why is it significant that Dan Pedro and his men are returning from the war(s)?

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Much Ado About Nothing opens in a liminal situation with a war that has just ended. The men enter a "golden world" in Messina where the women are already located. In this situation, people fail to take things seriously, causing the war of the wombs to soon turn into a war of words.

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