Beatrice and Benedick

I gave up on this one. It was supposed to be a prequel to my favorite couple from Much Ado About Nothing.   There were pieces of Othello and Romeo and Juliet embedded in, along with entertaining of a crackpot theory of Shakespeare authorship. 

I just didn't care enough to finish it.  When I got to the Spanish Armada, Calvinism, the expulsion of the Moors and possible Cervantes, I realized what a sprawling mess this was.

Not worth finishing.