BBC Television Shakespeare the abandoned production of "Much Ado About Nothing". It was repeated on 22 June 1981. The "Prefaces to Shakespeare" episode for "The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight" was presented by Donald Sinden, who had played Henry in a 1969 RCS production directed by Trevor Nunn. The "Shakespeare in Perspective" episode was presented by novelist and literary scholar Anthony Burgess. Cast The week prior to the screening of this episode in both the UK and the US, the first-season episode "King Richard the Second" was repeated as a lead-in to the trilogy. The episode also began
Much Ado About Nothing and proneness to sexual lightness". In the patriarchal society of the play, the men's loyalties were governed by conventional codes of honour and camaraderie and a sense of superiority to women. Assumptions that women are by nature prone to inconstancy are shown in the repeated jokes on cuckoldry and partly explain Claudio's readiness to believe the slur against Hero. This stereotype is turned on its head in Balthazar's song "Sigh No More," which presents men as the deceitful and inconstant sex that women must suffer. A theme in Shakespeare is cuckoldry or the infidelity of a wife. Several of the