Love's Labour's Won Shakespeare originally titled his Shrew play "Love's Labour's Won" in order to distinguish it from the rival play. Yet another possibility is that the name is an alternative title for another Shakespearean comedy not listed by Meres or Hunt. "Much Ado About Nothing", commonly believed to be written around 1598, is often suggested. For example, Henry Woudhuysen's Arden edition (third series) of "Love's Labour's Lost" lists a number of striking similarities between the two plays. "Much Ado about Nothing" is also listed under another alternative title, "Benedick and Beatrice", in several book sellers' catalogues. Leslie Hotson speculated that "Love's Labour's
Much Ado About Nothing the album is also a quotation from the play. The 2014 YouTube web series Nothing Much to Do is a modern retelling of the play, set in New Zealand. In 2015, Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the music for a rock opera adaptation of the play, "These Paper Bullets", which was written by Rolin Jones. In 2017, a YA adaptation was released by author Mckelle George called "Speak Easy, Speak Love", where the events of the play take place in the 1920s, focused around a failing speakeasy. In 2018, author Molly Booth released a summer YA novel adaptation called "Nothing Happened",