Much Ado About Nothing Paul Puget's "Beaucoup de bruit pour rien" (pub.1898) and "Much Ado About Nothing" by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1901) are based upon this play. Erich Wolfgang Korngold composed music for a production in 1917 at the Vienna Burgtheater by Max Reinhardt. In 2006 the American Music Theatre Project produced "The Boys Are Coming Home," a musical adaptation by Berni Stapleton and Leslie Arden that sets "Much Ado About Nothing" in America during the Second World War. The title track of the 2009 Mumford & Sons album "Sigh No More" uses quotes from this play in the song. The title of
Much Ado About Nothing (2012 film) the film has achieved an average score of 78/100 based on 37 reviews, signifying "generally favorable reviews". John DeFore of "The Hollywood Reporter" gave a positive review of the film, remarking, "...more than most adaptations, this is a film true to Shakespeare's practice of employing all means at hand to keep the crowd entertained". Tom Clift of Moviedex complimented the director's use of subtle visual humor, while Lou Lumenick of the "New York Post" commented that "this is the funniest Shakespeare film I can recall seeing". "The Guardian" scored the film four out of five stars, calling it "...the first