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A Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording nomination went to a recording of a National Theatre production with Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens The 2014 YouTube web series Nothing Much to Do is a modern retelling of the play, set in New Zealand. [51] The play is predominantly written in prose. [14] The substantial verse sections achieve a sense of decorum. [15] Setting [ edit ] A Tony Award Nomination for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play" went to Margaret Leighton for her role played in Much Ado. [ citation needed]

A comedy by Shakespeare, written probably 1598–9, first printed 1600. Its chief sources are a novella by Bandello and an episode in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.Much Ado About Nothing review – Mel Giedroyc blazes through Great Sicilian Bake Off". The Guardian. 19 April 2018 . Retrieved 26 January 2023. Dame Again. Early 'lost' Maggie Smith appearance painstakingly restored". BBC. September 2016 . Retrieved 30 September 2016. The composer Edward MacDowell said he was inspired by Ellen Terry's portrayal of Beatrice in this play for the scherzo of his Piano Concerto No. 2. [40] In 2005, the BBC adapted the story by setting it in the modern-day studios of Wessex Tonight, a fictional regional news programme, as part of the ShakespeaRe-Told season, with Damian Lewis, Sarah Parish, and Billie Piper. [50]

c. 1598: In the original production by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, William Kempe played Dogberry and Richard Cowley played Verges. [ citation needed] Evans, G. Blakemore (1997). "Much Ado about Nothing". The Riverside Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p.361. ISBN 0-395-85822-4.Gaw, Allison (1935). "Is Shakespeare's Much Ado a Revised Earlier Play?". PMLA. 50 (3): 715–738. doi: 10.2307/458213. ISSN 0030-8129. JSTOR 458213. S2CID 163471928– via JSTOR. Somerset, Alan (3 January 2019). "Much Ado About Nothing (1987, Stratford Festival of Canada)". Internet Shakespeare Editions. University of Victoria . Retrieved 18 January 2020. A Tony Award Nomination for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play" went to Kathleen Widdoes. [ citation needed] a b "Much Ado About Nothing: Act 1, Scene 1". shakespeare-navigators.com . Retrieved 6 August 2015.

Goff, Moira. "Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare in quarto". www.bl.uk . Retrieved 25 February 2023.Johannes V. Jensen (1950), Swift og Oehlenschläger (in Danish), Copenhagen: Gyldendal, p.7, Wikidata Q108935398 In 2019, Laura Wood released Under a Dancing Star, a YA modernized version set in Florence. [56] Citations [ edit ] Gordon, D. J. (1942). " "Much Ado about Nothing": A Possible Source for the Hero-Claudio Plot". Studies in Philology. 39 (2): 279–290. ISSN 0039-3738. JSTOR 4172572– via JSTOR.