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 About Nothing (2012 film) the film has achieved an average score of 78/100 based on 37 reviews, signifying "generally favorable reviews". John DeFore of "The Hollywood Reporter" gave a positive review of the film, remarking, "...more than most adaptations, this is a film true to Shakespeare's practice of employing all means at hand to keep the crowd entertained". Tom Clift of Moviedex complimented the director's use of subtle visual humor, while Lou Lumenick of the "New York Post" commented that "this is the funniest Shakespeare film I can recall seeing". "The Guardian" scored the film four out of five stars, calling it "...the first