Margaretta Scott on television); "An Ideal Husband" (1976/1977 Tour) and "Lady Windermere's Fan" (Canada 1979). Her last West End role was with Leo McKern in the revival of "Hobson's Choice" (1984) directed by Frank Hauser.<ref name="http://www.cft.org.uk/1995"></ref> Scott was one of the first women to perform Shakespeare on television, in the role of Beatrice in a stage production of "Much Ado About Nothing" broadcast by the BBC in 1937. In 1946, she portrayed Portia in a made for television production of "The Merchant of Venice". For twenty-five years, from the 1970s, Scott played a number of distinguished parts in popular television dramas. These
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