Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written probably in 1598–99 and printed in a quarto edition from the author''s own manuscript in 1600. The play takes an ancient theme—that of a woman falsely accused of unfaithfulness—to brilliant comedic heights.Shakespeare used as his main source for the Claudio-Hero plot a story from Matteo Bandello''s Novelle (1554–73); he al...