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.

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

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 of the plot is also similar ; Petruchio vows to marry Catharine before he has even seen her, she smashes a lute over the music tutor's head, Baptista fears no one will ever want to marry her ; the wedding scene is identical, as is the scene where Grumio teases her with food ; the haberdasher and tailor scene is very similar ; the sun and moon conversation, and the introduction of Vincentio are both taken from Shakespeare.

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 —

The stories on which William Shakespeare based several of his plays ( Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night in particular )< Ref name =" SHEMEK "/> were supplied by Bandello, probably through Belleforest and Pierre Boaistuau whose stories were later translated into English by William Paynter and included in his The Palace of Pleasure.

Four stories were adapted by Shakespeare, including Cymbeline ( part 1, story 19 ), the Claudio subplot of Much Ado about Nothing ( part 1, story 20 ), Romeo and Juliet ( part 2, story 6 ), and Twelfth Night ( part 2, story 28 ), plus one from the Shakespeare Apocrypha, Edward III ( part 2, story 29 ).

Returning to London in January 1958 he appeared as Philip Lester in A Touch of the Sun ( N. C. Hunter ) at the Saville Theatre — Best Actor in the Evening Standard Awards 1958 — before rejoining the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company in June 1958, to play Hamlet and Benedick, also playing Hamlet with the company in Leningrad and Moscow in December 1958 ( while his wife Rachel Kempson played Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet ).

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man: and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him ...-William Shakespeare – Excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing – Act 2, Scene I

It was so widely used by Elizabethan scholars that Shakespeare was able to refer to it in the second scene of Act IV of Titus Andronicus, quote from it in the first scene of Act II of Henry IV, Part 1 (" Homo is a common name to all men ") and allude to it in the first scene of Act IV of The Merry Wives of Windsor and scene 1 of Act IV of Much Ado about Nothing.

World Shakespeare Festival including Much Ado About Nothing in an Indian setting.

O ' Ferrall would oversee numerous productions of Shakespeare over the course of 1937 ; a ten minute excerpt from Mark Antony's funeral speech in Julius Caesar, starring Henry Oscar ( 11 February ); a ten minute excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing with Henry Oscar as Benedick and Margaretta Scott as Beatrice ( also 11 February ); a twenty-five minute extract from Macbeth, with Henry Oscar as Macbeth and Margaret Rawlings as Lady Macbeth ( 25 March ); a thirty-minute extract from Twelfth Night, with John Wyse as Orsino and Greer Garson as Olivia ( 14 May ); and a sixty-seven minute extract from Othello starring Baliol Holloway as Othello, D. A.

* Much Ado about Nothing ( 1915 ); music for the Shakespeare play

* William Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 2, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Much Ado About Nothing published

( Shakespeare probably used another Whetstone book for his Much Ado About Nothing.

* Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare

In April 1961, he appeared as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre ( Stratford-upon-Avon, England ).

Among the memorable performances ( including some from before Papp had the Delacorte for his Shakespeare ) were George C. Scott's Obie-award winning Richard III in 1958 ; Colleen Dewhurst's Kate, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra ( opposite George C. Scott's Mark Antony ), and Gertrude ; the Prince Hamlet of Stacy Keach opposite Dewhurst's Gertrude with James Earl Jones ' King Claudius, Barnard Hughes's Polonius and Sam Waterston's Laertes ; Sam Waterston's Hamlet ( opposite the Gertrude of Ruby Dee ) with the Laertes of John Lithgow and Andrea Marcovicci's Ophelia ; the Benedick and Beatrice of Sam Waterston and Kathleen Widdoes in Much Ado About Nothing with Barnard Hughes's Keystone Kops version of Dogberry ; the early work of Meryl Streep as Isabella in Measure for Measure ; Mary Beth Hurt as Randall Duk Kim's daughter in Pericles ; James Earl Jones as King Lear ( 1973 ) with Rosalind Cash and Ellen Holly as his wicked daughters ; Raul Julia as Edmund in Jones ' 1973 King Lear, as Osric to Keach's Hamlet, and as Proteus ( in a musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona which transferred to a Broadway run ).

Smits has participated in the Public Theater's New York Shakespeare Festival, playing the role of Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night in 2002, and Benedick in Much Ado about Nothing in 2004.

Lyly's style influenced Shakespeare, who satirises it in speeches by Polonius in Hamlet and the florid language of the courtly lovers in Love's Labour's Lost ; Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing also make use of it, as do Richard and Lady Anne in Richard III.

Much of the material from their vaudeville act, including Lucy's memorable seal routine, was used in the pilot episode of I Love Lucy.

Both through his charitable foundation and individually, Hefner also contributes to charities outside the sphere of politics and publishing, throwing fundraiser events for Much Love Animal Rescue as well as Generation Rescue, a controversial autism campaign organization supported by Jenny McCarthy.

Much of the imagery surrounding Gith satirises ad campaigns ( the Recruiter who spawns Swarmers in the game periodically exhorts his victims in a cheery voice to ' Join us ' and claims to promote ' Peace ' and ' Love ').

It was constructed from Mercury's final recordings in 1991, featuring tracks such as " Too Much Love Will Kill You " and " Heaven for Everyone ", plus material left over from their previous studio albums.

In 1998, the duo appeared at Luciano Pavarotti's benefit concert with May performing " Too Much Love Will Kill You " with Pavarotti, later playing " Radio Ga Ga ", " We Will Rock You ", and " We Are the Champions " with Zucchero.

# Brian May with Spike Edney-" Too Much Love Will Kill You "

The debate over the banning of " Justify My Love " by the Canadian music video network MuchMusic led to the launching in 1991 of Too Much 4 Much, a series of occasional, late-night specials ( still being aired in the early 2000s ) in which videos officially banned by MuchMusic were broadcast, followed by panel discussion regarding why they were removed.

Working titles of songs included " Left for Dead ," " River Wide ," " Say Uncle ," " You Wear it Well ," " More Than Yesterday ," " I Don't Miss You ... Much ," " Love Divine ," and " From Here, Where Do We Go ?".

A second Moody Bluegrass album entitled Two ... Much Love with a further 16 Moody Blues songs will include guest performances from Hayward, Lodge and Edge, ( each of whom is credited as the lead on one song ) plus Thomas and Pinder, making this the first time since 1978 that these five musicians all appeared on one newly-recorded album.

composed of the singles " Mirror Man " and " Fascination " together with the new track " I Love You Too Much " was released from the original recording sessions for their new album, later to be named Hysteria.

* " I Love You So Much " w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby

A sample of " Are You Gonna Go My Way " was used in American singer Chris Willis's single " Too Much In Love, released on August 16, 2011

Jagged Edge and Paul McCartney recorded " Too Much Heaven " in 2004. Wyclef Jean recorded Jive Talkin ' in 2005 and Sheryl Crow recorded " To Love Somebody in 2005 as a tribute for him.

# " So Much Love / Underture " ( Gerry Goffin, Carole King ) – 4: 47

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 ").

She was invited to join The National Theatre for its inaugural season at the Old Vic, working with such directors as Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, and Noël Coward in roles such as Rose in The Recruiting Officer, Barblin in Andorra, Jackie in Hay Fever, Kattrin in Mother Courage, Miss Prue in Love for Love, and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing which kept her busy for the next three years.

In 2007, Deniece Williams included " Never Too Much " on her Love, Niecy Style CD.

Much of Hayes's career was spent writing screenplays for glossy, big-budget melodramas like Torch Song with Joan Crawford, BUtterfield 8 with Elizabeth Taylor, The Carpetbaggers with Carroll Baker, and Where Love Has Gone with Susan Hayward and Bette Davis.

As his singing career failed to take off, despite 14 singles being released, the first being the Pop-Soul styled " Don't Get Off The Train " on Fontana TF 562 released in April 1965 and two in 1967-68, " So Much Love " and " It's Only Love " made the UK Top 40 on MGM, he stopped singing and concentrated on radio presenting.

" Jack Jones recorded it in English for his 1967 album, Our Song, under the title, " Oh How Much I Love You ".

Much of Desilu Productions early success can be traced to Arnaz's unusual business style in his role as producer of I Love Lucy.

Page had three additional No. 1 hit singles between 1950 and 1953, with " All My Love ( Bolero )", " I Went to Your Wedding ", and "( How Much Is That ) Doggie in the Window ".