. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. the costume a particular periodto any of Shaksperes plays which are not his-torical, care should be had to select one asnear as possible to the time at which it waswritten. The comedy of Much Ado aboutNothing commences with the return of certainItalian and Spanish noblemen to Sicily after thewars. Now the last war in which the Italiansunder Spanish dominion were concerned pre-vious to the production of this comedy wasterminated by the peace of Cambray, called La Paix des Dames, in consequence of its being signed (August 3rd,
. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. the costume a particular periodto any of Shaksperes plays which are not his-torical, care should be had to select one asnear as possible to the time at which it waswritten. The comedy of Much Ado aboutNothing commences with the return of certainItalian and Spanish noblemen to Sicily after thewars. Now the last war in which the Italiansunder Spanish dominion were concerned pre-vious to the production of this comedy wasterminated by the peace of Cambray, called La Paix des Dames, in consequence of its being signed (August 3rd, 1529) by Margaretof Austria in the name of the Emperor Charlesv., and the Duchess dAngouleme in that ofher son Francis I. This peace secured toCharles the crown of Naples and Sicily; and,after vanquishing the Saracens at Tunis, hemade triumphal entries into Palermo and Mes-sina in the autumn of 1535. Of the costume ofthis period we have given a detailed descriptionand several pictorial illustrations in The TwoGentlemen of Verona, to which we must referthe
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