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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITERARY THEORY, CRITICISM AND PHILOLOGY
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by José Ángel GARCÍA LANDA
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE:
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
(Romantic comedy, written c. 1598-99, pub. 1600)
Editions
Shakespeare, William. Much Ado about Nothing. As it hath been
sundry times publicly acted, by the right honourable, the Lord
Chamberlain his servants. Written by William Shakespeare.
Quarto. London: Printed by V[alentine]. S[immes]., for Andrew
Wise, and William Aspley, 1600.
_____. Much adoe about Nothing. 1600. In Literature Online: Editions
and Adaptations of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey.
_____. Much Ado about Nothing. In Mr. William Shakespeares
Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. (First Folio). London, 1623.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. In The Works of Shakespear. Ed.
William Warburton. Vol. 2. London, 1747.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. In Mr William Shakespeare His
Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Ed. Edward Capell. Vol. 2.
London, 1767.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. In The Works of William
Shakespeare. Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens.
Vol. 2. London, 1778.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. K. Deighton. 1888.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. H. H. Furness. (New Variorum
ed.). Philadelphia and London, 1899.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. J. C. Smith. (Warwick ed.).
1902.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. Grace Trenery. (Arden
Shakespeare, 1st ed.).
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. W. A. Wright. Oxford:
Clarendon, 1905.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. (Clarendon Select Plays of
Shakespeare). Oxford: Clarendon, 1916.
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_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. C. F. Tucker Brooke. In The
Works of William Shakespeare. New Haven: Yale UP, 1917.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and J.
Dover Wilson. (New Cambridge Shakespeare). Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1923.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. Josephine Waters Bennett. In
The Complete Works. Gen. ed. A. Harbage. (Complete Pelican
Shakespeare, rev. ed.). Baltimore (MD), 1969.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. Sheldon P. Zitner. Oxford:
Oxford UP.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. A. R. Humphreys. (Arden
Shakespeare, 2nd ed.). London: Methuen, 1981. Rpt. Routledge.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. R. A. Foakes. (New Penguin
Shakespeare). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.*
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. F. H. Mares. (New Cambridge
Shakespeare). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988. 1995.*
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. Norbert Greiner. (Deutsche
Shakespeare-Gesellschaft Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe der
Dramen Shakespeares). 1989.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. Mary Berry and Michael Clamp.
(Cambridge School Shakespeare). Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. John Cox. (Shakespeare in
Production Series). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming
1996.
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. Introd. Stephen Greenblatt. In The
Norton Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York:
Norton, 1997. 1381-1444.*
_____. Much Ado About Nothing. In William Shakespeare: Complete
Works (The RSC Shakespeare). Ed. Jonathan Bate and Eric
Rasmussen. London: Macmillan, 2007. Pbk. 2008. 255-304.*
_____. Beaucoup de bruit pour rien. (GF 670). Paris: GarnierFlammarion.
_____. Mucho ruido y pocas nueces. In Shakespeare, Obras completas
II: Comedias y poesía. Trans. and notes by Luis Astrana Marín.
Madrid: Santillana-Aguilar, 2004. 7-49.*
_____. Mucho ruido por nada. Introd. Carlos Pujol. Trans. José María
Valverde. (Colección William Shakespeare). Barcelona: Planeta
DeAgostini, 2000.*
_____. Mucho ruido y pocas nueces. Trans. R. Martínez Lafuente.
Introd. R. A. Foakes, trans. Gema Moral Bartolomé. (William
Shakespeare: Obra completa). Barcelona: RBA, 2003.*
_____. Mucho ruido y pocas nueces. Introd., trans. and notes by Pablo
Ingberg. Buenos Aires: Losada, 2005; Barcelona, Vitae, 2005,
2006.
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_____. Mucho ruido y pocas nueces. In Shakespeare, Obras completas
- II. Comedias: Los dos caballeros de Verona - La doma de la
fiera - La comedia de los errores - Trabajos de amor perdidos Sueño de una noche de verano - El mercader de Venecia - Las
esposas alegres de Windsor - Mucho ruido y pocas nueces Como gustéis - Noche de Reyes. Trans. Pablo Ingberg, Delia
Pasini, Cristina Piña, Emir Rodríguez Monegal and Idea
Vilariño, "Introducción general" by Pedro Henríquez Ureña, "La
comedia shakespeariana" by Laura Cerrato, "Shakespeare en
escena" interview with David Amitín by Jorge Dubatti. Ed.
Pablo Ingberg. Barcelona, Losada, 2008.
Criticism
Agathe, James. "Much Ado at the Old Vic." 1931. In Shakespeare:
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Azcona Montoliu, María del Mar. "An Approach to Male Anxieties in
Much Ado About Nothing." In AEDEAN: Proceedings of the
23rd International Conference (León, 16-18 de diciembre,
1999). CD-ROM. León: AEDEAN, 2003.*
Baker, David Weil. "'Surpris'd with All': Rereading Character in Much
Ado About Nothing." In Second Thoughts: A Focus on
Rereading. Ed. David Galef. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1998.
228-46.*
Barber, John. "A Young Company at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre."
1968. In Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing and As You
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Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979. 228-29.*
Barton, Anne. Introd. to Much Ado About Nothing. In The Riverside
Shakespeare. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Boston (MA), 1974.
Billington, Michael. Review of Much Ado About Nothing. By William
Shakespeare. Guardian 9 April 1976.
_____. "John Barton's Production at the Aldwych Theatre." (Much Ado
About Nothing). 1977. In Shakespeare: Much Ado about
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(Casebooks series). Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979. 230-31.*
Brissenden, Alan. "Much Ado About Nothing II.i.6-96: The Case for
Balthasar." Notes and Queries (April 1979): 117.
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Brown, John Russell, ed. Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing and
As You Like It. (Casebooks series). Basingstoke: Macmillan,
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Calvo López, Clara. "'Too Wise to Woo Peaceably': The Meanings of
Thou in Shakespeare's Wooing-Scenes." In SEDERI 3. Ed. Mª
Luisa Dañobeitia. Granada, 1992. 49-60.
Carbajosa, Natalia. (Universidad de Salamanca). "Beatrice y Benedick
en Much Ado About Nothing: análisis pragmático." Atlantis 19.2
(December 1997, pub. December 1998): 35-44.*
Cartmell, Deborah. "Shakespeare, Film and Sexuality: Politically
Correct Sexuality in Film Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet and
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Shakespeare on Screen. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000. 39-66.*
Chambers, E. K. "Plays of the First Folio." In Chambers, William
Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1930. 1.275-498.*
Cook, Carol. "'The Sign and Semblance of Her Honor': Reading
Gender Difference in Much Ado About Nothing." In Shakespeare
and Gender. Ed. Deborah Barker and Ivo Kamps. London:
Verso, 1995. 75-105.*
Craik, T. W. "Much Ado About Nothing." Scrutiny 19 (1952-3).
Davis, Walter R., ed. Twentieth-Century Interpretations of MUCH ADO
ABOUT NOTHING. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice-Hall, 1969.
Dawson, Anthony B. "Much Ado About Signifying," Studies in
English Literature 22 (1982): 211-21.
Deleyto, Celestino. "Men in Leather: Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado
About Nothing and Romantic Comedy." Cinema Journal 36.3
(Spring 1997): 91-105.*
Dickens, Charles. "Macready en el papel de Benedick." From
Contributions to THE EXAMINER. In Dickens, Obras completas
XII. Madrid: Santillana-Aguilar, 2005. 782-85.*
Ellis, Ruth. "Gielgud's Production at the Shakespeare Memorial
Theatre." (Much Ado About Nothing." 1949. In Shakespeare:
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Everett, Barbara. "Something of Great Constancy." (Much Ado About
Nothing). 1961. In Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing and
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Findlay, Alison. "Much Ado About Nothing." In A Companion to
Shakespeare's Works, Volume III: The Comedies. Malden:
Blackwell, 2003. Pbk. 2006. 393-410.*
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Fleissner, Robert. "Love's Labour's Won and the Occasion of Much
Ado." Shakesepeare Survey 27 (1974).
García Landa, José Angel. "Much Ado About Nothing (and its
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Hazlitt, William. Characters of Shakespear's Plays. London, 1817.
_____. Characters of Shakespear's Plays. Oxford: Oxford UP.
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1906.
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William Hazlitt. Ed. P. P. Howe. 21 vols. London, 1930-34. Vol.
4.
_____. Characters of Shakespear's Plays. Select. in Hazlitt, Selected
Writings 277-88.
_____. "Much Ado About Nothing." In Hazlitt, Characters of
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Horowitz, David. "Imagining the Real." In Twentieth-Century
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Howard, Jean E. "Renaissance Antitheatricality and the Politics of
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Howard and Marion F. O'Connor. New York: Methuen, 1987.
163-87.
Hubert, Judd D. "Verbal Choreography and Metaphorical Space in
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Example of Shakespeare. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1991. 1538.*
Lang, Andrew. On Much Ado About Nothing. Harper's Magazine
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221.*
Mason, Pamela. "Much Ado" at Stratford-upon-Avon, 1949-76. M.A.
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Neely, Carol Thomas. Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays. New
Haven: Yale UP, 1985.
_____. "Broken Nuptials: Much Ado about Nothing." In Shakespeare's
Comedies. Ed. Gary Waller. (Longman Critical Readers).
Harlow: Longman, 1991. Rpt. Addison Wesley Longman, 1996.
139-54.*
Oncins Martínez, José Luis. "El 'duelo verbal' en Much Ado about
Nothing y su traducción al español." Hermeneus 2 (2000): 191208.*
Potts, A. F. "Spenserian 'Courtesy' and 'Temperance' in Shakespeare's
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García Landa, José Angel. "Much Ado About Nothing." From A
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Films
Much Ado about Nothing. Dir. Arthur Rosson. Based on William
Shakespeare's play. USA, 1926.
Mnogo shuma iz nichego. Dir. L. Samkovoi. Based on William
Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing. USSR, 1956.
Viel Larm um Nichts. Dir. Martin Hellberg. Based on William
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. German Democratic
Republic, 1963.
Beaucoup de Bruit pour Rien.. Dir. Samson Somsonov. Based on
William Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing. USSR, 1973.
Much Ado About Nothing.. Dir. Kenneth Branagh. Cast: Denzel
Washington, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Michael
Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, Kate Beckinsale,
Richard Briers, Phyllida Law, Brian Blessed, Imelda Staunton,
Ben Elton. Costumes: Phyllis Dalton. Montage: Andrew Marcus.
Music: Patrick Doyle. Screenplay by Kenneth Branagh based on
W. Shakespeare's play. Prod. design Tim Harvey. Phot. Roger
Lanser. Prod. Kenneth Branagh, David Parfitt, Stpehen Evans,
for Renaissance Films. 114'. UK/USA: Samuel Goldwyn
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Company / Renaissance Films / American Playhouse / BBC
Films, 1993.
_____. Mucho ruido y pocas nueces. VHS. (Colección William
Shakespeare). Samuel Goldwyn Co. / Laurenfilm / Planeta
DeAgostini, 2000.*
Music
Berlioz, Hector. Béatrice et Bénédict. Opera. Based on William
Shakespeare's play.
_____. Béatrice et Bénédict. Josephine Veasey, John Mitchinson, April
Cantelo, John Cameron, Helen Watts, John Shirley-Quirk, Eric
Shilling. The St Anthony Singers. London Symphony Orchestra /
Sir Colin Davis. Prod. 1963. 2 CDs (with Irlande, Le Trébuchet,
La Mort d'Ophélie, Chant de la Fête de Pâques). London:
Decca, 1996.*
_____. Béatrice et Bénédict. Susan Graham. Opéra de Lyon / Nelson. 2
CDs. Erato, 1992.
Related works
Davenant, William. The Law Against Lovers. Drama based on
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. First performed 15 Feb.
1662.
Ten Things I Hate About You. Dir. Gil Jungers. Cast: Heath Ledger,
Julia Stiles, Larisa Oleynik. USA: Touchstone Pictures, 1998.
(Teen adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew).
Theatrical productions
Much Ado about Nothing. Staged by Beerbohm Tree.
Video
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Much Ado About Nothing. Utah Valley University Theatre Dpt.
Production. You Tube (Utah Valley University) 7 Jan. 2011.*
http://youtu.be/bw6ToCTP6So
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