Much Ado About Nothing
A great book. First published AD 1600, written in English
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599. The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623.
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OthelloGreat book
William Shakespeare, AD 1622
Much Ado About Nothing already turns on a villain who stages false proof that a woman is unfaithful, and a lover who believes it. In the comedy the slander is undone in time; in Othello it kills.
Source: Wikipedia, Othello
“Influences also include Shakespeare's own earlier plays Much Ado About Nothing, in which a similar plot was used in a comedy, The Merchant of Venice with its high-born, Moorish, Prince of Morocco, and Titus Andronicus, in which a Moor, Aaron, was a prominent villain, and as such was a forerunner of both Othello and Iago.” Read it there
