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Shakespeare's Plays

This guide gathers together library resources relating to the theatrical works of William Shakespeare

Online Texts

Folger Digital Texts - Much Ado About Nothing
Provided by the Folger Shakespeare Library
JSTOR: Understanding Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
Each line of the play links to scholarly articles that cite and explain it.

Streaming Video

Television Productions
Theatrical Productions

1984 - Much Ado About Nothing - BBC Television - Cherie Lunghi and Robert Lindsay
1972 - Much Ado About Nothing - CBS-TV production of the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Broadway staging

2011 - Much Ado About Nothing - Wyndham's Theatre, London - Catherine Tate and David Tennant

DVDs & CDs

1993 - Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branaugh
2003 - BBC Audiobook

1993 - Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branaugh
ISBN: 9781419849725

William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

Scholarship

Shakespeare Survey - Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.

World Shakespeare Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Provides annotated entries for all important scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare. The scope is international.
Subject Coverage:
materials relating to Shakespeare
Dates of Coverage:
1960 to present
Update Frequency:
unavailable
Size:
more than 127,500 records
Note:
Types of items indexed include: books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, and electronic media

Scholarship on Much Ado About Nothing

Claudio at Hero's Tomb [Act 5, scene 3] - 19th century