Crollalanza theory of Shakespeare authorship Sicilian Shakespeare as an attractive literary myth. In retelling it some have also changed the name from "Crollalanza", which in today's Italian would tend to mean "spear collapses" or "spear gives way", to "Scrollalanza", which unambiguously means "shakes spear". (Both these are rare but real surnames.) Andrea Camilleri, the celebrated writer who created the detective figure Salvo Montalbano, has co-written with Giuseppe Dipasquale a comedy in Sicilian dialect "" (2009), based on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing", which plays mischievously on the theory that Shakespeare was of Sicilian origin. Earlier, in a humorous article in 2000, "Shakespeare, Mafia Made-Man from
Much Ado About Nothing (2012 film) frame a little bit, the more it speaks towards what’s going on". The film was shot hand-held, digitally with multiple cameras, often with a RED Epic, and used a Lensbaby Composer with Double Glass lens on a Canon 7D to differentiate certain scenes. Whedon composed the score for the film and recruited Deborah Lurie to produce. He arranged music to "Sigh No More" and "Heavily", two songs that William Shakespeare had written into the play. These tracks were performed by Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon. Whedon described the experience of making his debut in scoring a film as "terrifying", going