Much Ado About Nothing (1917) Yale

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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

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 title page from the Quarto of 1600, including the title, author, and information about publication

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

Edited by

Wilbur L. Cross⁠Tucker Brooke

Willard Higley Durham

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

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