... the forest of Arden in As You Like It or Prospero's island in The Tempest). Courtiers are frequently figures of fun whose unmanly sophistication ('neat and trimly dressed, / Fresh as a bridegroom ... perfumed like a milliner', ...
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969. Dawson, Anthony b. “Much Ado about Signifying.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 22.2 (1982): 211–21. Edwards, gavin. “Anticipation and Retrospect in Much Ado about Nothing.
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Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare.
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1 ; for the Greek text , see H. Ziegler ( trans . ) , De motu circulari corporum caelestium ( Leipzig : Teubner , 1891 ) , p . 8 , and in German translation , see Arthur Czwalina ( trans . ) , Kleomedes Die Kreisbewegung der Gestirne in ...
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