Much Ado About Nothing (1917) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare).

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The Yale Shakespeare

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MUCH ADO ABOUT
NOTHING

 

EDITED BY
TUCKER BROOKE

 

 

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · MCMVII

 

Copyright, 1917
By Yale University Press

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First published, July, 1917

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
⁠Act I	1
⁠Act II	17
⁠Act III	43
⁠Act IV	64
⁠Act V	80
Notes	107
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	124
Appendix B. The History of the Play	128
Appendix C. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	130
Appendix D. The Text of the Present Edition	131
Index of Words Glossed	132

 

The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the only early quarto edition. Fifteen copies of this edition are known to survive.

 

 

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

 

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Edited by

Wilbur L. Cross⁠Tucker Brooke

Willard Higley Durham

 

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Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University,

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society