Kathleen Widdoes received a 1973 Tony Award nomination (Best Actress in a Play) for her performance as Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing", set at the end of the Spanish–American War (1898), for the New York Shakespeare Festival. The production transferred from the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park to Broadway and was preserved for television. She played other roles for the Festival, including Titania in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". In 2002, she received the Lucille Lortel Award (Featured Actress) for her work in the play "Franny's Way" Off-Broadway. Kathleen Widdoes Kathleen Effie Widdoes (born March 21, 1939) is an American actress.
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