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Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe
Much
Ado About Nothing - Viel Lärm um
nichts.
Deutsche Prosafassung, Anmerkungen, Einleitung und Kommentar
von Norbert Greiner. Stauffenburg
Verlag
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on-line editions
Quarto
(1600), Folio (1623)
[http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/Ado/index.html]
Folio
(1623),
University of Virginia
[http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/]
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translations
Viel
Lärm um Nichts.
Deutsche Übersetzung Wolf Graf v. Baudissin
[http://projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/laerm/laerm.htm]
(May 2002)
Veel drukte om niets
Dutch
translation. by Jan
Jonk. [http://www.janjonk.nl/] (March
2002)
Audio
recording:
Much Ado (Rex Harrison, Rachel Roberts) (last
visit: 22/02/00)
Tanto
rumore per nulla / Much ado about
nothing.
Italian Translation. (PDF-file)
[http://infoservice.dnsq.org/sh-commedie.html]
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sources
Edmond Spenser:
Fairie Queene, II,iv; in: The Complete Works
[http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/] (last
visit: 09/03/99)
Orlando Furioso, Ludovico Arosto, trans. Sir John
Harrington, 1591
Translation
by William Stuart Rose,
[http://www.bulfinch.org/furioso/furioso.html];
HTML-Version
in Italian
not available:
Bandello, La Prima Parte de le Nouvelle del Bandello,
Lucca, 1554
M. A. Anthony, Fedele and Fortunio, 1585
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productions, performances
a) stage
history
Current
and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the
UK
[http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html]
(April 2002)
The
Traffic on Stage
(Shakespeare Productions 1999 - 2002 in the UK)
[http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/testjon3/] (April
2002)
Shakespeare
at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre
(1906-1960)
[http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html]
(April 2002)
b) actors, pictures of performances
The
Cleveland Press Shakespeare
Photographs by
Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures
of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare
on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet.
[http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/]
Audio
recording:
Much Ado (Rex Harrison, Rachel Roberts) (last
visit: 22/02/00)
c) reviews of productions
Kavanaugh,
Rachel. London
Open Air 2000.
reviews
Broadway,
1999, 1984, 1972
Boyd, Michael. RSC
Barbican 1998
reviews.
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film versions
Internet
Movie Database
[http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William]
Shakespeare
on Television: a bibliography of
criticism
[http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]
Much
Ado About Nothing
(UK, USA 1993) dir. Kenneth Branagh
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0107616]
Much
Ado About Nothing
(Canada, 1987) (TV) dir. Peter Moss
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0186375]
Much
Ado About Nothing
(UK, 1984) (BBC , TV) dir. Stuart Burge
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087752]
Lyubovyu
za lyubov
(USSR 1983) dir. Tatyana Berezantseva
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0253223]
Much
Ado About Nothing
(UK, USA 1978) (TV) dir. Donald McWhinnie
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0077956]
Viel
Lärmen um Nichts
(Austria, 1975) (TV) dir. Otto Schenk
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0191635]
Much
Ado About Nothing
(USA, 1974) (TV) dir. A.J. Antoon Joseph Papp production
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0071870]
Much
Ado About Nothing
(UK, 1967) (TV) dir. Alan Cooke, Franco Zeffirelli
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0062000]
Viel
Lärm um nichts
(East Germany, 1963) dir. Martin Hellberg
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0057658]
Viel
Lärm um nichts
(1958) dir. Ludwig Berger
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0190119]
Mnogo
shuma iz nichego (USSR
1956) dir. L. Zamkovoy
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0049512]
Much
Ado About Nothing (UK,
1937) (TV) dir. George More O'Ferrall
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0029270]
Saty
delaji cloveka
(Czech. Silent, 1912) dir. Max Urban
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0002474]
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adaptations in literature
Adaptations
of Shakespeare
ed. Daniel Fischlin and Mark Fortier.
[http://brig.thomson.com:9966/routledge/shakespeare/adaptations.html]
Titles
from Much Ado
[http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/muchado.html]
Davenant, William. The Law Against Lovers. (play)
1673. (also Measure for Measure)
North
American première at Harlem:
[http://www.indiaabroadonline.com/PublicAccess/ia-05192000/Community%20Affairs/TheLaw.html]
Kean, Charles. Much Ado About Nothing. (play)
1858.
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare:
Much
Ado
[http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/lambtales/LTMCHADO.HTM]
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales,
ill. by Arthur Rackham
[http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/cml/tfs.html]
(May 2002)
Lamb, Tales,
ill. by Gertrude Hammond
(1878) [http://www.bartleby.com/1012/]
Miller, James. The Universal Passion. (play) 1737.
song: Handel, George. HWV 22811:
I like the am'rous youth that's
free
[http://www.intr.net/bleissa/handel/201to300.html#HWV228.11]
Nesbit, Edith. Beautiful
Tales from Shakespeare
http://www.worldwideschool.com/library/books/lit/Shakespeare/BeautifulStoriesfromShakespeare/toc.html
adaptations in popular novels and romances: Heyer,
Georgette. Friday's Child; Marshall, Paula. Dear
Lady Disdain; Martin, Michelle. The Hampshire
Hoyden, commented by Osborne, Laurie, Romancing
the Bard:
[http://www.colby.edu/personal/l/leosborn/POPSHAK/]
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adaptations in music
1862
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869): Beatrice et Benedict. opera comique; first performance: Baden-Baden, 9.8.1862
Berlioz, Hector. Béatrice et Bénédict ; libretto in French [http://www.hberlioz.com/Libretti/BetB.htm] (July 2010)
The Berlioz Website [http://www.hberlioz.com/]
1895
Carl Arpad Doppler (1857-1927): Viel Lärm um Nichts. Nach Shakespeare's Lustpiel frei bearbeitet von A. Harlacher; first performance: Leipzig, 14.3.1895
1899
Paul Charles Marie Puget (actually: Curet, 1848-1917). Beaucoup de bruit pour rien. Oper. Libretto: Edouard Blau; first performance: Theatre National de l'Opera-Comique, Paris, 24. 3. 1899
1901
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924): Much Ado about Nothing, or The Marriage of Hero. grand opera in 4 acts. Libretto: Julian Sturgis; first performance: Covent Garden, London 30.5.1901, cond. L. Mancinelli; also Lyceum Theatre, RCM opera class, 20.11.1901 cond. Stanford. / deutsche UrauffuNhrung in Leipzig, 25.4. 1902
Stanford, Charles Villiers. Much Ado About Nothing. (1900) [http://www.boosey.com/pages/opera/moreDetails.asp?musicID=7570]
1912
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957): Suite zu "Viel Lärm um Nichts", op. 11. Incidental music; first performance:Wien, 6.5.1920
1956
Hermann Henrich (1891-1981): Viel Lärm um Nichts. Oper; first performance: Frankfurt/Oder, 1956
1993
Patrick Doyle (*1953) Much Ado about Nothing. film score, 1993
1997
Bernard J. Taylor (*1944) Much Ado. Musical. first performance: Stratford-on-Avon, 1997
Taylor, Bernard J. Much Ado (musical based on the Branagh film version) [http://www.bernardjtaylor.com/Muchado/Madosongs.html] (July 210)
songs:
Sigh no more, Act II scene iii.:
William Arms Fisher
(1861-1948) op 5 no. 5, 1897;
Roger Quilter (1877-1953), op.
30 no. 4.
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), Five Shakespeare
Songs no. 3;
Peter Warlock (Philip Arnold
Heseltine) (1894-1930); [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/sigh.no.more.html]
[http://www.intr.net/bleissa/handel/201to300.html#HWV228.11]
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paintings, illustrations
Shakespeare
illustrated
criticism
Chidester, Stephanie Much
Ado About "Noting"
(Insights, 1995) [http://dsc.dixie.edu/shakespeare/muchess.htm] (May
2002)
Gough, Melinda J. "Her
filthy feature open showne" in Ariosto, Spenser, and Much
Ado about Nothing
(SEL)
Lucking, David. "Bringing
Deformed Forth: Engendering Meaning in Much Ado About
Nothing."
Renaissance Forum 2.1. (Spring 1997) [http://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/EL_Web/renforum/v2no1/lucking.htm]
Monahin, Nona The
Dances in Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo & Juliet [http://www.hampshireshakespeare.org/notes/dance.html] (May 2002)
Moulton:
From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and
American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols.
(London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 495-96. [http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-muchado.html]
Myhill, Nova. Spectatorship
in/of Much Ado about Nothing
(SEL, vol 39)
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in the classroom
see also on this
site: Education
- Shakespeare in the classroom
Much
Ado [http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3712.html] (May 2002)
Cummings, Michael.
The
Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to
Shakespeare. [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top] (Jan. 2002)
Much Ado About Nothing [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#topMuchado.html]
Marx, Steven.
Triangulating
Shakespeare:
teaching and lecture notes, course outlines, articles,
links, suggestions, film reviews
Massi, JM. study
questions. [http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/wssq/muchado.html] (25/04/01)
Shakespeare
for teachers
and students [http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm] with
lesson plans (Jan. 2002)
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deutsche Webseiten
Gröchel, André. Das kleine
Shakespeare-Brevier: Viel
Lärm um nichts
Inhalt, Wurzeln, Quellen. Falls
dieser Link nicht klappt: [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/laerm.htm]
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just for
fun
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing...
What are clothes? "Much Ado About Nussing!"
("BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE" from Kiss me, Kate,
music: Cole Porter; lyrics: Sam and Bella Spewack)
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