. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. Much Ado about Nothing was first printedin 1600. There was no other separate variations between the text of thequarto and that of the folio are very chronology of this comedy is sufficientlyfixed by the circumstance of its publicationin 1600, coupled with the fact that it is notmentioned by Meres in 1598. The story is taken from Ariosto, saysPope. To Ariosto then we turn; and weare repaid for our labour by the pleasure ofreading that long but by no means tediousstory of Genevra, whic
. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. Much Ado about Nothing was first printedin 1600. There was no other separate variations between the text of thequarto and that of the folio are very chronology of this comedy is sufficientlyfixed by the circumstance of its publicationin 1600, coupled with the fact that it is notmentioned by Meres in 1598. The story is taken from Ariosto, saysPope. To Ariosto then we turn; and weare repaid for our labour by the pleasure ofreading that long but by no means tediousstory of Genevra, which occupies the wholeof the fifth book, and part of the sixth, ofthe Orlando Furioso. The tale is a prettycomical matter, as Harrington- quaintlypronounces it. The famous town of forms its scene : and here wasenacted something like that piece of villainyby which the Claudio of Shakspere wasdeceived, and his Hero done to death byslanderous tongues. But here the resem- blance ceases. Ariosto found the incidentof a lady betrayed to suspicion and danger,by th
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