I tend to dive a little deeper into the poetic aspects of the play during my second reading of the play, and Much Ado About Nothing is no different. And if you’ve read this blog for more than just a few months, you know that I love antilabes.
Antilabe?
What’s an antilabe?
The completion of one character’s poetic line (in Shakespeare, usually iambic pentameter) by another.
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