Much ado about nothing
Subtitle: a comedy
By: by W. Shakspeare
Series: Oxberry's edition
Publisher: Published for the proprietors, by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, and C. Chapple
Published: 1823
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Stage history; Promptbooks
Notes: "With prefatory remarks. The only edition existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business ... as it is performed at the Theatres Royal. By W. Oxberry, Comedian."

At heat of title:-Oxberry's edition.

Added title-page: The new English drama, 16.

On cover: Oxberry's new English drama, 10.

Shattuck MA 8

Autograph of John Gilbert.

Part of the Shakespeare Promptbook Collection. See Newlin, Jeanne T. et al. “Shakespeare Promptbooks in the Harvard Theatre Collection: A Catalogue.” Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 35, no. 1, 1987.

Actor's study book with manuscript cast list for Princess's Theatre, 11 April 1848 with Gilbert as Leonato. Portrait of Miss Chester in the character of Beatrice is wanting.

In original printed wrappers.