{"lc_classifications": ["PR2796.H4 M83"], "description": "Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the \"lover's trap\" set for the arrogant and assured Benedick who has sworn of marriage and his gentle adversary Beatrice. The merry war between Benedick and Beatrice with the promptings of their friends soon dissolves into farcical love, while Hero's supposed infidelity is shown to be little more than \"much ado about nothing\".", "links": [{"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing", "title": "Much Ado About Nothing - Wikipedia", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"url": "http://shakespeare.mit.edu/much_ado/full.html", "title": "Much Ado About Nothing: Entire Play", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "SparkNotes: Much Ado About Nothing", "url": "https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/muchado/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Much Ado About Nothing | Royal Shakespeare Company", "url": "https://www.rsc.org.uk/much-ado-about-nothing/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Much Ado About Nothing | Folger Shakespeare Library", "url": "https://www.folger.edu/much-ado-about-nothing", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/Much-Ado-About-Nothing-by-Shakespeare", "title": "Much Ado About Nothing | work by Shakespeare | Britannica.com", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "title": "Much Ado About Nothing", "covers": [8290853, 996449, 9120831, 10223954, 10788966, 10788967, 9116736, 10748338, 11154447, 11273996, 11277458, 12001931, 12485463, 12496548], "subject_places": ["Italy", "Messina", "Messina (Italy)"], "first_publish_date": "1734", "subject_people": ["Don Pedro", "Don John", "Claudio", "Benedick", "Leonato", "Antonio", "Balthasar", "Borachio", "Conrade", "Friar Francis", "Dogberry", "Verges", "A Sexton", "A Boy", "Hero", "Beatrice", "Margaret", "Ursula", "Messengers", "Watch", "Attendants", "William Shakespeare (1564-1616)"], "key": "/works/OL362691W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL9388A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "excerpts": [{"comment": "first sentence.", "author": {"key": "/people/seabelis"}, "excerpt": "Enter Leonato (Governor of Messina), Hero (his Daughter), and Beatrice (his Niece), with a Messenger."}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["mistaken identities", "performing arts", "comedy", "Drama", "Conspiracies", "Rejection (Psychology)", "Courtship", "Juvenile drama", "Criticism and interpretation", "Quartos", "Plays", "English drama", "Shakespeare, William. Much ado about nothing", "Textual Criticism", "Specimens", "Fiction", "Classic Literature", "open_syllabus_project", "History and criticism", "English drama (Comedy)", "Dictionaries", "English language", "French", "Juvenile literature", "Much ado about nothing (Shakespeare, William)", "Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, much ado about nothing", "British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)", "English literature, study and teaching", "Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, juvenile literature", "Drama (dramatic works by one author)", "English literature", "Drama, collections", "Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, dramatic production", "Bibliography", "Miniature books", "Messina (Italy)", "Problems, exercises", "Mistaken identity", "Children's plays, English", "Early modern and Elizabethan", "Tragedies", "Beatrice (Fictitious character : Shakespeare)", "Benedick (Fictitious character : Shakespeare)", "Man-woman relationships", "Marriage", "Drehbuch", "Much ado about nothing", "Political crimes and offenses", "Comedies", "Humorous plays", "Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, study and teaching", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "English drama, history and criticism", "Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, adaptations", "Fiction, general", "Dramatic production", "Stage history", "Film adaptations", "Women in literature", "Politics and government", "American College and school drama", "Geneseo State University of New York College", "Hydrography", "Maps", "Translations into Italian"], "genres": ["/tags/OL165T", "/tags/OL167T", "/tags/OL174T", "/tags/OL179T"], "latest_revision": 123, "revision": 123, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-27T11:22:23.045452"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-30T08:29:20.005096"}}