Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover's trap" set for the arrogant and assured Benedick who has sworn of marriage and his gentle adversary Beatrice. The merry war between Benedick and Beatrice with the promptings of their friends soon dissolves into farcical love, while Hero's supposed infidelity is shown to be little more than "much ado about nothing".
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1734, printed for J. Tonson, and the rest of the proprietors; and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster
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1750, Printed for J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T.Longman, H. Lintot, C. Hitch...
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1757, printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, J. Hodges, B. Dod [and 5 others in London]
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1766, Printed for J. and R. Tonson, H.Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Hawes...
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1776, Printed for J. Rivington, W. Strahan, J. Hinton, C. Bathurst, Hawes and Co....
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1878, Printed, for W. Winter, by F. Hart & Company
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1878, Printed, for W. Winter, by F. Hart & Company
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1878, Printed, for W. Winter, by F. Hart & Company
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1878, Printed, for W. Winter, by F. Hart & Company
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1964, Washington Square Press
Much ado about nothing.
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September 1985, Dover Publications Inc.
Much Ado About Nothing
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December 1990, Hyperion Books
Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare's Globe Acting Edition)
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1995, Washington Square Press, Pocket Books
Much ado about nothing
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March 28, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
Much Ado About Nothing (Oxford World's Classics)
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September 2004, The Audio Partners
Much Ado About Nothing
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August 30, 2004, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Edition)
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September 19, 2005, Cambridge University Press
Much Ado about Nothing
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December 1, 2006, Sourcebooks MediaFusion
Much Ado About Nothing
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August 7, 2006, Echo Library
Much Ado About Nothing (Large Print)
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March 5, 2006, ICON Group International, Inc.
Much Ado About Nothing (Webster's German Thesaurus Edition)
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May 5, 2006, ICON Group International, Inc.
Much Ado About Nothing (Webster's Chinese-Traditional Thesaurus Edition)
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February 5, 2006, ICON Group International, Inc.
Much Ado About Nothing (Webster's French Thesaurus Edition)
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March 5, 2006, ICON Group International, Inc.
Much Ado About Nothing (Webster's Italian Thesaurus Edition)
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History Created October 27, 2009 · 14 revisions
| November 23, 2012 | Edited by Anand Chitipothu | Reverted spam |
| November 21, 2012 | Edited by 188.190.126.72 | Edited without comment. |
| July 18, 2011 | Edited by George | Added new cover |
| May 15, 2011 | Edited by WorkBot | merge works |
| October 27, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |





















































































