Similarities in Shakspear

Both “Romeo and Juliet” and “Much Ado about Nothing” tell the audience about love stories that evolve throughout the plays.

In both dramatic works, the Masque is a key element furthering the infatuation of the lovers. However, while tragic characters Romeo and Juliet fall in love, comic personages Benedick and Beatrice have a teasing dialogue in which both of them exercise their wit and finally admit that they love each other.

In both plays, the masque is the setting where the plots of love stories emerge. The setting is perfect for such a d

They planned to set up Hero in front of Claudio by making Claudio believe that his innocent fiancé was really with Borachio. Don John just showed Claudio Hero’s chamber-window where Borachio one of the Don John’s followers and the woman, Margaret, the waiting-gentlewoman to Hero who was not aware of their evil plan were in each others arms. Borachio called her Hero and she termed him Claudio. Poor Claudio saw this and mistakenly took that woman for Hero, thou he hadn’t seen the face, just as Don John wanted. If Claudio had ran to the couple he would have seen that that was not Hero at all but evil Don John stopped him and said that it was not the right time for vengeance.

Even though the plot might develop by the same steps and in the same settings, this development in tragedies and comedies lead to drastically different ends: death of the lovers in one genre, and marriage in another.

The masque brings lovers together because it is they don’t know who is beneath the disguise. The balcony scenes build suspense. Priests represent God’s will for the lovers to be together. These three are examples of many similarities between the plays, which underline that comic and tragic evolve in the same way, but end differently. These similarities could have been whether intended by author or be a mere coincidence. However, regardless of Shakespeare’s intention, it shows how thin is the line between the tragic and the comic.<

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