Shakespeare had a word for everything, even for the rain that disrupted Wednesday night's `` Much Ado About Nothing '' opening the season of free theatre in Central Park.

Joseph Papp, impassioned founder of the festival and director of `` Much Ado '', had a vibrant, colorful production under way.

As `` Much Ado '' turned serious while the insipid Claudio rejected Hero at the altar, a sprinkle began to fall.

`` Much Ado '' ends happily.

* Benedick, from William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, says " But that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead or hang my bugle in an invisible baldric all women shall pardon me.

This form of comedy has a long ancestry, dating back at least as far as Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare.

There is a reference to Diana in Much Ado About Nothing where Hero is said to seem like ' Dian in her orb ', in terms of her chastity.

Four Klingon translations of works of world literature have been published: < cite > ghIlghameS </ cite > (< cite > Gilgamesh </ cite >), Hamlet (< cite > Hamlet </ cite >), < cite > paghmo ' tIn mIS </ cite > (< cite > Much Ado About Nothing </ cite >) and pIn ' a ' qan paQDI ' norgh ( Tao Te Ching ).

Oxfordians see Oxford's marriage to Anne Cecil, Lord Burghley's daughter, paralleled in such plays as Hamlet, Othello, Cymbeline, The Merry Wives of Windsor, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Winter's Tale.

Many elements of the screwball genre can be traced back to such stage plays as Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

The editors of the Oxford and Norton Shakespeare believe the name of Imogen is a misspelling of Innogen — they draw several comparisons between Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing, in early editions of which a ghost character named Innogen was supposed to be Leonato's wife ( Posthumus being also known as " Leonatus ", the Latin form of the Italian name in the other play ).

* Much Ado About Nothing, 1600

* Essex is said by editor David L. Stevenson to be alluded to in Much Ado About Nothing at 3. 1. 10-11.

In his last opera, the comic opera Béatrice et Bénédict, Berlioz prepared a libretto based loosely on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

Sir William Davenant inserted Benedick and Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing into his adaptation, called The Law Against Lovers.

The original template for this kind of comedy is Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

* The story has also been briefly alluded to in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, both when Benedick states that Leander was " never so truly turned over and over as my poor self in love " and in the name of the character Hero, who, despite accusations to the contrary, remains chaste before her marriage.

He is also the main character of Shakespare's Much Ado About Nothing.

For example, Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing used this ploy to present a surface level description of the play as well as a pun on the Elizabethan use of " nothing " as slang for vagina.

Later that year, Smith joined Christchurch's Court Theatre and performed on stage for the next three years in a variety of roles including Don Pedro in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire.

In Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Benedick spots the sharp-tongued Beatrice approaching and exclaims to the Prince, Don Pedro, that he would do an assortment of arduous tasks for him " rather than hold three words conference with this harpy!

Shakespeare also mentions her in the play Much Ado About Nothing, when Benedick says, referring to Beatrice,

* Referenced by Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing when Don Pedro courts Hero for Claudio ( 2. 1. 95 ), and also in As You Like It by Jaques ( 3. 3. 7-8 ).

He is also mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid and in five plays by William Shakespeare: Hamlet, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing, Titus Andronicus, and As You Like It, where he joins the couples at the end —

He was a major theatre star, noted for his performances on the British stage in Shaw's The Devil's Disciple ( 1938 ) and Heartbreak House ( 1942 ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1946 ) and especially as Thomas Becket in T. S.

In the episode " Much Apu About Nothing ", he is seen taking a citizenship test, implying that prior to this he was not a citizen of the United States ( Although unconfirmed, much evidence supports this-not only is he likely of Latino descent, he is specifically given an Argentine accent in Spanish language dubs ).

In " Much Apu About Nothing " ( 1996 ), Moe is depicted taking his United States citizenship test ; previously, " Bart's Inner Child " ( 1995 ) had depicted Moe's own inner child chastising him for abandoning his native Italian accent.

Ironically, in " Much Apu About Nothing ," Nelson picks on foreign exchange student Üter for being German during Springfield's anti-immigration mania.

In the Stratford 1976 season, and then at the Aldwych in 1977, she gave two comedy performances, first in Trevor Nunn's musical staging of The Comedy of Errors as Adriana, then partnered with Donald Sinden as Beatrice and Benedick in John Barton's " British Raj " revival of Much Ado About Nothing.

Dench's contribution was a staging of Much Ado About Nothing, set in the Napoleonic era, which starred Kenneth Branagh and Samantha Bond as Benedick and Beatrice.

Much ink has been spilled on Usamah ibn Munqidhs supposed distaste of European medicine, but as anyone who reads the entire text of his autobiography will notice, his first-hand experience with European medicine is positive-he describes a European doctor successfully treating infected wounds with vinegar and recommends a treatment for scrofula demonstrated to him by an unnamed " Frank ".

Much of the eastern parts of the country remained independent, as part of the Turk Shahi kingdoms of Kabul and Gandhara, which lasted that way until the forces of the Muslim Saffarid dynasty followed by the Ghaznavids conquered them.

Much of it is permanent marsh, but some parts dry out in early winter, and other parts become marshland only in years of great flood.

Much of the controversy concerned the parts of the book in which the authors wrote about racial differences in intelligence and discuss the implications of those differences.

Much as a surgical team during surgery is led by one surgeon performing the most critical work, while directing the team to assist with less critical parts, it seems reasonable to have a " good " programmer develop critical system components while the rest of a team provides what is needed at the right time.

Much of the Northern hemisphere showed significant cooling during the Little Ice Age ( defined for the purpose as 1400 to 1700 ) but Labrador and isolated parts of the United States appeared to be approximately as warm as during the 1961 – 1990 period.

Much smaller parts lie in Austria ( 0. 6 %) and Poland ( 0. 2 %).

Much of this line is currently used by the California Zephyr, although some parts were rerouted or abandoned.

Much of this speed increase was due to extensive use of pipelining, a technique that allows different parts of the CPU to work simultaneously on different parts of successive instructions of the process at the same time.

Much of the area of the northern and western parts of the county is either public ( Monongahela National Forest ), coal land, or private forest, owned by companies such as MeadWestvaco and CSX.

Much of it was dug up and dismantled by the Irish government from the 1950s — 1970s after being deemed uneconomic, however there remains local advocacy groups who wish to conserve and restore parts of it.

Much of Thamesmead was initially built by the Greater London Council ( GLC ) for rent to families moving from overcrowded back-to-back Victorian housing ( also referred to as slums ) in south eastern parts of Inner London.

Much of Ohio County is farmland and the eastern and northern parts have rolling hills.

Much of the land in the county is given over to agriculture, especially on the open prairie in the northern and western parts ; the county's farmland is among the most productive in the state.

Much of the 2001 movie Bandits was filmed in and around Tomales, as were the opening shots of Mumford ( 1999 ), and parts of Scream ( 1996 ), and Village of the Damned ( 1995 ).

Much of the town land is made of marshes, and quite a bit is protected land, included in the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Old Town Hill Reservation Area, Kents Island Wildlife Management Area, Downfall Wildlife Management Area and parts of the Mill River Wildlife Management Area and Crane Pond Wildlife Management Area.

Much of the remainder of the lowland parts of Cleveland is farmland.

Much of the toothpaste sold in the United States has 1000 to 1100 parts per million fluoride.

Much of the canal subsequently became unnavigable: many of the structures were deliberately damaged by army demolition exercises ; parts of the route were filled in and in some cases built over.

Much but not all of the area now suffers from high unemployment and parts of it are amongst the most economically deprived communities in the UK.

Much of the group's music consists of standard pop tunes arranged in heterodox ways: by inclusion of parts in other keys, for example, or of rhythm instruments playing arrhythmically.

Her popularity spread to other parts of the world when she competed in the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, Japan, and won the musician's award for " Top Performer " as well as the gold medal for " Best Song " with " Tellement j ' ai d ' amour pour toi " (" I Have So Much Love for You ").

In 1862, she joined her sister Kate in J. H. Chute's stock company at the Theatre Royal, Bristol, where she played a wide variety of parts, including burlesque roles requiring singing and dancing, as well as roles in Much Ado about Nothing, Othello and The Merchant of Venice.

Much of the Irish economy and public finances had also depended on the property market and its collapse at roughly the same time as the banking crisis impacted all parts of the Irish economy.