5. The Evidence of Things not Seen: Making Believe and the Self-defensive Play of Much Ado About Nothing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction: The Comedies of Play 1
5. 1. Playing with Discontinuity: Mistakings and Mistimings in The Comedy of Errors 14
6. 2. 'Form Confounded' and the Play of Love's Labour's Lost 35
7. 3. Enter the Hero: the Power of Play in The Taming of the Shrew 58
8. 4. Parody and Play in A Midsummer Night's Dream 94
9. 5. The Evidence of Things not Seen: Making Believe and the Self-defensive Play of Much Ado About Nothing 122
10. Concluding Remarks 151
11. Notes and References 154
12. Index 165