Introduction: W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. and Nicholas Utzig

Section I: Epistemology and Truth in Much Ado About Nothing

Chapter 1: “Change Slander to Remorse”: Acknowledgement and (Self)-Recognition in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Sélima Lejri
Chapter 2: “Deceivers Ever”: Much Ado About Nothing and Cultures of Deception, Kathleen Kalpin Smith

Section II: Present and Past in Much Ado About Nothing

Chapter 3: The Threat of the Stranger in Much Ado About Nothing, Stephanie Chamberlain
Chapter 4: “In Messina Here”: Shakespeare’s Use of Setting in Much Ado About Nothing, Philip Goldfarb Styrt
Chapter 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 Hoffman

Section III: Crime and Punishment in Much Ado About Nothing

Chapter 6: Punishing Wrongdoers and Other Things I Didn’t Know I Needed From A Romantic Comedy: Messina as a Post-Conflict Society, Kelsey Ridge
Chapter 7: Slut Shaming, Revenge Porn, and the Making of Meaning by Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing, Anthony Guy Patricia
Chapter 8: Margaret’s Complicated Consent: An Overlooked Victim in Much Ado About Nothing, Jolene Mendel

Section IV: Shakespearean Adaptation and Performance

Chapter 9: “Till all graces be in one woman”: Archetypes of Womanhood in YA Adaptations of Much Ado About Nothing, Anna Graham
Chapter 10: Much Ado About Nothing, Performance and Cultural Identity, Jami Rogers
Chapter 11: Teaching “Kill Claudio” in the Age of Streamed Shakespeare, Joseph Sullivan
Chapter 12: “Almost the copy of my child that’s dead”: Ghosts and Adaptation in Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, Jim Casey

Afterword
About the Authors