Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Cox, John F., ed. Shakespeare in Production: Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Davis, Walter, ed. Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Much Ado About Nothing. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1969.

Dusinberre, Juliet. Shakespeare and the Nature of Women (3rd edition). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Everett, Barbara. Much Ado About Nothing: The Unsociable Comedy.” In English Comedy, ed. Michael Cordner, Peter Holland, John Kerrigan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Gay, Penny. “Much Ado About Nothing: A King of Merry War.” In As She Likes It: Shakespeare’s Unruly Women. London: Routledge, 1994. 143–177.

Greenblatt, Stephen, gen. ed. The Norton Shakespeare (Based on the Oxford Edition). New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997.

Howard, Jean. “Renaissance Antitheatricality and the Politics of Gender and Rank in Much Ado About Nothing.” In Shakespeare Reproduced, ed. Jean Howard and Marion O’Connor. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1987. 163–187.

Smith, Emma. The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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