Much Ado About Nothing
Edition: First Signet Classic Printing, Newly Revised Edition (5)
Series: The Signet Classic Shakespeare
Publisher: Signet Classic
Published: 1998 July
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780451526816
Copyright date: 1998
First sentence: Leonato. I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Aragon comes this night to Messing.
Description: Unique Features of the Signet Classic Shakespeare

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

Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type

Up-to-date list of recommended readings
(back cover)
Notes: US/CAN