Atë as an invocation of vengeance and menace. Mark Antony, lamenting Caesar's murder, envisions: Shakespeare also mentions her in the play "Much Ado About Nothing", when Benedick says, referring to Beatrice, So too, in "King John", Shakespeare refers to Queen Eleanor as "An Ate stirring [John] to blood and strife" (2.1.63), and in Love's Labours Lost Birone jeers "Pompey is moved. More Ates, more Ates! stir them on! stir them on!" (5.2. 688-9). In her book "The March of Folly", Barbara Tuchman notes that the earth has been called The Meadow of Atë. In Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", a fiend from
Much Ado talents I have found is his ability to write music in the style befitting the age his work is set, as MUCH ADO so admirably demonstrates. Paul McGann's singing voice adds style. and panache to his solo numbers (If I Could Write A Sonnet and The Strange Affliction Called Love) as well as a pleasing accompaniment to the redoubtable Claire Moore In Disdain" and Then Kill For Me. Of course, as always Claire Moore gives a breathtaking performance with (among others) I'll Never Marry and How Can This Be, but then that lady can do no wrong in my book.