num_pages: 224
description: Sparkling with witty dialogue, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This up-to-date edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction which discusses Shakespeare's socialtransformation of his source material, and rethinks the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its view of marriage.
language: English
title: Much Ado about Nothing
titlecomplete: Much Ado about Nothing
characters: Antonio, Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing), Leonato, Ursula (Shakespeare), The Watch, Borachio, A Sexton, Innogen, Beatrice (diverse works), Don John, Dogberry, Hero (Much ado), Magaret, Claudio, Verges, Don Pedro, Friar Francis, Balthazar (Much Ado About Nothing), Conrade, boy
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Poetry, Drama, School, Humor, Romance, Literature, Classics
ratings_count: 239312
places: Sicily, Messina, Sicily
publisher: Oxford University Press