Much Ado about Nothing and the New Awareness

W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. is associate professor of English at South Carolina State University. Nicholas Utzig is lecturer at Sarah Lawrence College.

• Introduction: W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. and Nicholas UtzigSection I: Epistemology and Truth in Much Ado About NothingChapter 1: “Change Slander to Remorse”: Acknowledgement and (Self)-Recognition in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Sélima LejriChapter 2: “Deceivers Ever”: Much Ado About Nothing and Cultures of Deception, Kathleen Kalpin SmithSection II: Present and Past in Much Ado About NothingChapter 3: The Threat of the Stranger in Much Ado About Nothing, Stephanie ChamberlainChapter 4: “In Messina Here”: Shakespeare’s Use of Setting in Much Ado About Nothing, Philip Goldfarb StyrtChapter 5: “A Bird of My Tongue is Better than a Beast of Yours”: Metamorphosis and Moral Relativism in Much Ado About Nothing and #MeToo, Christine HoffmanSection III: Crime and Punishment in Much Ado About NothingChapter 6: Punishing Wrongdoers and Other Things I Didn’t Know I Needed From A Romantic Comedy: Messina as a Post-Conflict Society, Kelsey RidgeChapter 7: Slut Shaming, Revenge Porn, and the Making of Meaning by Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing, Anthony Guy PatriciaChapter 8: Margaret’s Complicated Consent: An Overlooked Victim in Much Ado About Nothing, Jolene MendelSection IV: Shakespearean Adaptation and PerformanceChapter 9: “Till all graces be in one woman”: Archetypes of Womanhood in YA Adaptations of Much Ado About Nothing, Anna GrahamChapter 10: Much Ado About Nothing, Performance and Cultural Identity, Jami RogersChapter 11: Teaching “Kill Claudio” in the Age of Streamed Shakespeare, Joseph SullivanChapter 12: “Almost the copy of my child that’s dead”: Ghosts and Adaptation in Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, Jim CaseyAfterwordAbout the Authors