Long before rap battles or snarky Twitter take-downs there was Beatrice and Benedick, Shakespeare's sharpest-tongued twosome. Insults spark between them before they are tricked into loving each other and marrying, in true Elizabethan comedic style. The arc of animosity turning into affection and the sharp sparring make Much Ado About Nothing one of Shakespeare's liveliest comedies.

This summer, as part of the Globe's Season of Love, Much Ado About Nothing is transported into the 20th century by director Matthew Dunster, who returns to the Globe after 2016's Imogen. The double love story is set in Mexico in 1910, just as civil war begins to break out. How will this backdrop of 20th-century revolution and strife illuminate a celebrated comedy first performed at the very end of the 16th century? We can't wait to find out.