Much Ado About Nothing
In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare combines a comic love-plot of two professedly single characters coming together and a darker plot of spurned love and reconciliation. These two plots occur against a backdrop of nobility, friendship, and are sumptuousness combined with deceptions and moments of burlesque comedy.
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See also:
- A modern text of Much Ado About Nothing.
- Old-spelling texts of Folio 1 and Quarto 1.
A list of book facsimiles
that contain Much Ado About Nothing.
- The essential facts about the play.*
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Summary: facts about Much Ado About Nothing
Written:1598-1600
First published:
1600
A popular play: four quartos published before the Folio in 1623.
First mention: the publication of the First Quarto in 1600.Source: Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Edmund Spenser'sFaerie Queene, and others.