- Much Ado About Nothing, a play by William Shakespeare (c. 1598–1599)
- "Much Ado About Nothing," in Tales from Shakspeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb (1807)
- "Much Ado About Nothing," by William Hazlitt in Characters of Shakespear's Plays (1817)
- Much Ado About Nothing, an opera by Charles Villiers Stanford, with libretto by Julian Sturgis (1901)
- "Much Ado About Nothing," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11, incidental music by Erich Korngold, composed 1918–1919 (1920)