Marina Fiorato

Hidden in the language of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing are several clues to a youthful love affair between Beatrice and Benedick. But how did they meet, what drove them apart so bitterly, and what brought them together again?

With Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre performing the play at the Festival this summer, Marina Fiorato’s richly detailed tale of intrigue, treachery and betrayal sheds new light on the bard’s most appealing lovers and their fateful first meeting in the summer of 1588.