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) 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