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.

* 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.

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 ).

* Hibbs, Thomas S. ( 2000 ), Shows About Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture from The Exorcist to Seinfeld, Dallas, TX: Spence Publishing Company.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

** Nothing But Trouble-Warner Bros .-Lester Berman / Robert K. Weiss

Nothing more was heard about the professorship, but instead De Vicq summoned him to Paris for important business: the Fontainebleau Conference.

Nothing definite was done in the matter, however, until the Cleveland Conference of 1855, when a committee consisting of Wise, Rothenberg and Isidor Kalisch was appointed to edit such a prayer-book.

* Nothing Is Impossible ( 2011 ) Studio Album-DVD Recorded Live at Planetshakers Conference 2010

On the " Notes About Nothing " featurette on the DVD package, the series creator and star Jerry Seinfeld says that Louis-Dreyfus's ability to eat a peanut M & M without breaking the peanut aptly describes the actress: " She cracks you up without breaking your nuts.

You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish.

** Episode 31 " How To Die For Nothing " ( Writer )

The album was followed the same year by the non-album singles " Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now " and " William, It Was Really Nothing ", which featured " How Soon Is Now?

Downey was also a songwriter whose most successful numbers include " All I Need is Someone Like You ", " California Skies ", " In the Valley of the Roses ", and " Now You're in My Arms ", " Sweeten Up Your Smile ", " That's How I Spell Ireland ", " There's Nothing New ", and " Wabash Moon ".

How to Do Nothing With Nobody All Alone By Yourself ( 1958 ) is a how-to book, illustrated by Robert Paul Smith's wife Elinor Goulding Smith.

How To Do Nothing With No One All Alone By Yourself, illus Elinor Goulding Smith ( 1958 ) Republished by Tin House Books ( 2010 )

In June 2009, Carmichael was involved in a successful campaign to ban the book by Max Scratchmann, " Chucking it All: How Downsizing To A Windswept Scottish Island Did Absolutely Nothing to Improve My Life ", an irreverent account of the author's experience downshifting from Manchester to Orkney, which Carmichael said was " hurtful and vindictive ", and attacked a number of " clearly identifiable " residents of the Islands .< ref >

* Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are, text by Bob Frissell.

He writes a bi-weekly syndicated newspaper column, and is the author of six books: Nothing Could Be Finer Than a Crisis That Is Minor in the Morning ; ( Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979 ); There's Nothing That I Wouldn't Do If You Would Be My POSSLQ ( Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981 ); Osgood on Speaking: How to Think on Your Feet Without Falling on Your Face ( William Morrow and Company, 1988 ); The Osgood Files ( G. P.

Following an unsuccessful December 1968 US release, " Nothing But a Heartache " was re-issued in the US in early 1969 with " How Can You Tell Me?

* 1968 " Nothing But A Heartache " / " How Can You Tell Me "

To Say Nothing of the Dog: How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last is a 1997 comic science fiction novel by Connie Willis.

How Being a Stand Up Did Nothing to Prepare Me to Become a Single Mother ( Crossroad Publishing, 2008 ).

*" Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream " Appeared first in 1966 in The Saturday Evening Post under the title " How Can I Tell Them There's Nothing Left ".