Much Ado About Nothing (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare) (CD-Audio)

Young Claudio has fallen for the lovely heiress Hero, who also loves him. Their path to the altar looks smooth, until the evil Don John intervenes. All ends happily, thanks to his incompetent assassins and the lucky discoveries of the bungling constable Dogberry. Central to the play, one of Shakespeare s best-loved comedies, are Beatrice and Benedick, masters of wit and sworn foes to marriage until a plot is hatched to bring them together.Beatrice is played by Saskia Reeves, while Samuel West plays Benedick. Paul Jesson is Don Pedro, Jason O Mara is Claudio, and Abigail Docherty is Hero. Dogberry is played by Bryan Pringle.