Murphy Branch Book Club

The Murphy Branch Book Club meets the first Wednesday of the month at 11am This month, the Murphy Book Club will be reading Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. You can view the book in our catalog here. Much Ado About Nothing boasts one of Shakespeare's most delightful heroines, most dancing wordplay, and the endearing spectacle of intellectual and social self-importance bested by the desire to love and be loved in return. It offers both the dancing wit of the "merry war" between the sexes, and a sobering vision of the costs of that combat for both men and women. Shakespeare dramatizes a social world in all of its vibrant particulars, in which characters are shaped by the relations between social convention and individual choice.