description: The introduction reviews the few known facts about this early Shakespeare play and discusses the puzzling problems of its date and authorship. The text has been freshly edited with the aim of presenting the play as revised for the first recorded performance in 1594, with the addition ofstage business from the prompt-copy from which the Folio edition derives.
language: English
title: Much Ado about Nothing
titlecomplete: Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare, Signet Classic)
characters: Balthazar (Much Ado About Nothing), Borachio, Leonato, A Sexton, Hero (Much ado), Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing), Don John, Verges, The Watch, Dogberry, Friar Francis, boy, Claudio, Conrade, Antonio, Don Pedro, Ursula (Shakespeare), Magaret, Innogen, Beatrice (diverse works)
genres: Literature, Classics, School, Drama, Plays, Theatre, Fiction, Poetry, Humor, Romance
ratings_count: 239320
places: Sicily, Messina, Sicily
publisher: Signet Classics