Enter Leonato (Governor of Messina), Hero (his Daughter), and Beatrice (his Niece), with a Messenger.
An edition of Much Ado About Nothing
(1600)
Much Ado About Nothing
First Signet Classic Printing, Newly Revised Edition (5)
by William Shakespeare
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An extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet
Special Introduction to the play by the editor, David L. Stevenson, Hunter College
A special note on the sources from which Shakespeare derived Much Ado About Nothing
Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by Charles Gilden, Lewis Carroll, George Bernard Shaw, Donald A Stauffer, W.H. Auden, Carol Thomas Neely, and Robert Smallwood
A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors directors, and productions of Much Ado About Nothing, then and now
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Much Ado About Nothing : Revised Edition: Revised Edition
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Much Ado About Nothing
1998 July, Signet Classic
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Much ado about nothing
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"Leonato. I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Aragon comes this night to Messing."
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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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