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 and proneness to sexual lightness". In the patriarchal society of the play, the men's loyalties were governed by conventional codes of honour and camaraderie and a sense of superiority to women. Assumptions that women are by nature prone to inconstancy are shown in the repeated jokes on cuckoldry and partly explain Claudio's readiness to believe the slur against Hero. This stereotype is turned on its head in Balthazar's song "Sigh No More," which presents men as the deceitful and inconstant sex that women must suffer. A theme in Shakespeare is cuckoldry or the infidelity of a wife. Several of the