Much_Ado_About_Something

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文化艺术类纪录片，PBS 频道 2008 年出品，是 PBS American Experience 系列之一。

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/muchado/

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• 　中文片名　：
• 　中文系列名：PBS 美国印象 / PBS 美国人经历
• 　英文片名　：Much Ado About Something
• 　英文系列名：PBS American Experience
• 　电视台　　：PBS
• 　地区　　　：美国
• 　语言　　　：英语
• 　时长　　　：120 min
• 　版本　　　：DVD
• 　发行时间　：2008

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剧情简介

An introduction to "Much Ado About Something," a brief overview of the Shakespeare authorship debate, and links for further exploration. "It is a great comfort, to my way of thinking," Charles Dickens wrote in 1847, "that so little is known concerning the poet. The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something should turn up." "Is it not strange," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in his journals, "that the transcendent men, Homer, Plato, Shakespeare, confessedly unrivalled, should have questions of identity and of genuineness raised respecting their writings?"

Strange, indeed. And not everyone has taken comfort, as Dickens did, from the paucity of information about the life and literary career of William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon, considered by many the greatest writer in the English, or any, language. Henry James, the great American novelist, confessed, "I'm haunted by the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and most successful fraud ever practised on a patient world."

In "Much Ado About Something," Australian filmmaker and veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Rubbo plunges gamely into the longrunning debate over the authorship of Shakespeare's plays, picking up the trail of Christopher Marlowe -- the 16th-century English playwright, poet, and spy who some believe was the author. Born in 1564, the same year as Shakespeare, Marlowe was at the height of his literary career in 1593 -- having authored such plays as Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, and The Jew of Malta -- when he was apparently killed in a "brawl" over a tavern bill. But Marlowe's death, on closer examination, is cloaked in mystery, and some "Marlovians" insist that the playwright lived to write another day -- under the name of Shakespeare.

Rubbo takes viewers across England and to Italy, the setting of some of Shakespeare's greatest plays, in his quest to unravel the puzzle. Along the way he seeks out some of Britain's most respected Shakespearean scholars -- including Prof. Jonathan Bate, author of The Genius of Shakespeare (1997); Prof. Andrew Gurr, director of research at Shakespeare's Globe theater in London; and Prof. Stanley Wells, general editor of the Oxford edition of Shakespeare -- and talks to a number of prominent Marlovians, including the late Dolly Walker-Wraight (who died in March 2002, shortly after the film's completion) and various amateur scholars who have built a case for Kit (as Marlowe was also known).

Rubbo, intrigued by the mystery and the arguments for Marlowe, ultimately finds that there is insufficient evidence, on either side, to support a conclusive answer to this tantalizing authorship question. As the actor Mark Rylance, artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe theater, tells Rubbo, "The only rational response at the moment is to say that it has to be an open question, at least. It really has to be an open question, on the evidence." What we're left with, as in so many historical mysteries, is speculation. And yet, admits Rylance, "Whoever it is ... it would take a lot to convince me now that it was the Stratford man by himself."

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• 《無事生非》(Much Ado About Nothing) 是莎士比亞創作的喜劇，在1600年首次出版。 ----維基百科，自由的百科全書

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