THE Y A L*fi SHAKESPEARF-g MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Editkd by TuCKrR liROOKE Yale University I'll ESS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Q00123HVH'^2 K „ 10 Book Copyright ]^°. COraRIGUT DEPOSIT. THE YALE SHAKESPEARE Edited by Wilbur L. Cross Tucker 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 Members of the Kingsley Trust Association To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary OF THE Founding of the Society The Yale Shakespeare MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING EDITED BY TUCKER BROOKE NEW HAVEN -YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS -MCMVII :: \fj^' Copyright, 1917 By Yale University Press First published. July. 1917 AUG 1 1 1917 ©GI,A470592 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE The Text 1 Notes ...... 107 Appendix A. Sources of the Play . 124 Appendix B. The History of the Play 128 Appendix C. Suggestions for Collat- eral 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 qf the only early qiiarto edition. Fifeen copies qf this edition are known to survive. Much adoe about Nothing