Abstract
‘Amazement’ has as its root meaning ‘being lost in a maze’; hence it means bewilderment, distraction and perplexity. Those words are spoken by the Friar who, as a typical comic contriver, has sorted out the plot by producing something quite astonishing — a girl who’s apparently come back from the dead.
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© 1998 Richard Gill
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Gill, R. (1998). Much Ado About Nothing. In: Mastering Shakespeare. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14551-5_9
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