... hitelock 45. 24A possibility left o p en even by Lapidge 188, w hen h e says, w ithout id en ­ tifying th e ir origin, th a t the English au th o r o f the Liber Monstrorum clearly knew stories concerning Hyglac. THE SIXTH OF JULY; MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. I.i.274 In the Ju n e 1993 issue o f Notes...

...Dorothea Kehler Copyright © 2004 Regents of the University of Colorado 2004 June 2004 11 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: THE MEDIEVAL CONNECTION Attentive playgoers and readers often are puzzled by two aspects of Much Ado: Don P edro s intervention in Claudio s court­ ship and B eatrice s seem ing...

... b u t the OED does n o t show swell used as an adjec­ tive until the early n in e tee n th century. EXODUS (3.14) AS THE SOURCE AND TARGET OF SHAKESPEARE S VARIATIONS ON I AM THAT I AM In at least four of Shakespeare s plays (KingJohn, Much Ado, Othello, King Lear), th e villains (three bastards...

... to merry meetings and of military maneuvers ( O ur dreadful marches to delightful measures 1.1.6-82). In the same vein is Benedick s disdain of love in Much Ado About Nothingand the condemnation ofAntony in Antony and Cleopatra. What Lyly offers which Shakespeare withholds is the counter­ argument...

... and trial by com bat in Shakespeare. 9 For variations on the jo k e p rio r to Much Ado, see Shr. 5.1.32-34, LLL 2.1.202-02,>1.1.63, and 1H4 2.4.402-03. SHAKESPEARE S SONNET 146 Many conjectures have been m ade regarding Shakespeare s original wording of Sonnet 146, line 2. In the first and only reli­ able...

... Monstrorum clearly knew stories concerning Hyglac. THE SIXTH OF JULY; MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. I.i.274 In the Ju n e 1993 issue o f Notes and Queries, Philip ClaytonGore tries to elucidate the curious date of sixth of July in the text of this scene by referring to the Quarter-days which used to ...

..., ed. B. Mowat & P. W erstine, New Folger Shakespeare edition (NewYork: W ashington Square Press; W ashington, D. C.: Folger Shake­ speare Library, 1993), xxvii; verbatim in th e New Folger Shakespeare edition o f Much Ado About Nothing, ed. B. Mowat & P. W erstine (New York: Washing­ ton Square Press...

... ado and A lfre d o in C alifornia, bearing w itness to th e ir livelihoods w ith in the coastal vice econom ies, w h ethe r gam bling, bootlegging, or sleeping in five-cent theaters o r brothels in between low -paying jobs. Carlos him self is in itia lly wary, even fear­ ful, of the gam bling halls...

..., I say that the original act in this cure issueth from the wounded person to the ointm ent, and not (as he saith) from the ointm ent to the wound. Next, I told this busie Gentleman before, that makes so much adoe now about nothing; that for asmuch as this spirit proceedeth from a celestiali influence...

... swell used as an adjec­ tive until the early n in e tee n th century. EXODUS (3.14) AS THE SOURCE AND TARGET OF SHAKESPEARE S VARIATIONS ON I AM THAT I AM In at least four of Shakespeare s plays (KingJohn, Much Ado, Othello, King Lear), th e villains (three bastards and one self­ created) declare...

... in g effected w ith less ado o r g re a te r ca re " (362). She d efines Lynes English Language Notes 44.2 Fall / Winter 2006 276 E n g l i s h L a n g u a g e N o t e s 4 4 . 2 F a l l / W i n t e r 2 0 0 6 as the photographer w h o "In a w a y th a t is emphasized by absence contributed to m y k n o...