Week Six Historical Context

The narrative of much ado is that a man called Don Pedro wins a war against his sibling Don John, and touches base with his men (fighters) to stay with Leonato who is the duke of Messina. One of Don Pedros companions, Claudio, becomes hopelessly enamored with Leonato's girl called Hero. A wedding is organized and, as a carefree joke, a gathering of companions plan to trap Beatrice, Hero's cousin, and Benedick, another trooper, into falling for eachother.
In the meantime however Don John likewise has an arrangement: he needs to ruin the wedding, and figures out how to persuade Don Pedro and Claudio that Hero has been unfaithful before she they marry, through untruths and misdirection. Claudio, on the big day declines Hero, calling her a whore. Her family are convinced to lie that she is dead. Afterward, the men acknowledge they were deceived - Hero was totally honest.
To compensate, Claudio consents to wed another person, despite the fact that he can't see her face amid the service. A short time later, he is charmed to discover that Hero is alive and he is to marry her. The other amazement is that the other arrangement works: Beatrice and Benedick really begin to look all starry eyed at and toward the end she acknowledges his proposition to be engaged.
It is believed that much ado was first performed during 1598 and 1599 - early sixteenth century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5qQRepozGU

I watched contemporary production of Much ado where they have adapted it into a play, this does give me a good idea of the play overall and the relationship that a lot of the characters do have with each other, it was helpful to that extent, however in some ways I dint think it helped because they are performing for film and are able to play it a lot more naturalistic than it would have to be played on stage to clearly get the story across, it made me see my character as this young cheeky girl who is very naive to some extent and it also showed how much energy is needed throughout the play for it to work, especially when it is scenes such as the masquerade party scene where a lot of people are on stage and there are cut scenes and such, it will look very poor if the energy is low. I think it works to keep the set and costume to what is needed during that play, so just the house as the main set and the costumes to naturalistic, however the style that the movie is in is very much so set in those times, i think it could work to take a risk and modernise it - make all the characters a little younger than they are actually cast in the play and give it that naive, chaotic atmosphere, I believe it will work seeing as the play is already a comedy and has this almost silliness to it.