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An edition of Much Ado About Nothing
(1600)
Much Ado About Nothing
Digitally printed version.
by William Shakespeare
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John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, put into practice the techniques and theories that had evolved under the 'New Bibliography'. Remarkably by today's standards, although it took the best part of half a century to produce, the New Shakespeare involved only a small band of editors besides Dover Wilson himself. As the volumes took shape, many of Dover Wilson's textual methods acquired general acceptance and became an established part of later editorial practice, for example in the Arden and New Cambridge Shakespeares.
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Much Ado About Nothing : Revised Edition: Revised Edition
Jan 28, 2016, The Arden Shakespeare
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Much Ado About Nothing
1999 June, Project Gutenberg, in cooperation with World Library, Inc
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Much ado about nothing
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Table of Contents
Introduction
To the reader
Title page of the Quarto of 1600
Much Ado About Nothing
The copy for the text of 1600
Notes
The Folio variants
The stage history
Glossary.
Edition Notes
Reprint. Originally published: London : Cambridge U.P.,1953.
Includes bibliographies.
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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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