... was tricked as well; her friends also lead her to believe that Beatrice loved her.They felt pity for each other and dated one another because of it.The love affair between Benedick and Beatrice is an example of a comedy because it shows how they both let their guards down by saying they love each other. They let the people in the town ... be honored to be your husband]"(98). Even though Claudio humiliated Hero, she still accepted his hand in marriage for the perfect ending of the two main characters. Like all comedies, the play ends in happy matrimony. Another characteristic of comedy i...

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... lastly the way the play itself concludes. One indication that strongly supports the assertion that Much Ado About Nothing is a Comedy is the title. In Comedy's the title of the play is suppose to support a proverb that represents an ongoing theme in the play. In Shakespeare's time the ... that they play is indeed a Comedy. The plays title, the use of figurative masking, the use of deception as a means to an end, and the way the play itself concludes aid to show that the play consists of the major elements indicative of a Comedy. Many critics have even gone so ... far as to say that Sha...

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... , shame and court politics are defused by comedy, as well as by the "Forms of Confusion" John Creaser discussed in his essay. Creaser defined the word confusion, as used by Shakespeare, in many ways: ruin, shamefulness, embarrassment, disorder, com- motion. All of these definitions are invoked by Shakespeare in Much ... love with and engaged to Hero, is duped into believing that she has been unfaithful. This resulted in Hero's disgrace and was the crux of the story. The play revolved around this confusion brought about by Don John, the play's villain, and the deceit he perpetrates against...

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My opinion on the movie, Much Ado About Nothing was very good. It had all the elements of the time period drama, romance, action, and comedy. The drama in this movie was very thick and plentiful. Especially when the Prince's brother, Don John, was trying to stop Claudio from marrying his love Hero. The trouble he ... how impatient we are to find out the truth. To completely disbain Much Ado About Nothing as being a tragedy, there is a situation that truly makes a story a comedy and that is with everyone living "happily ever after." Relating these characteristics of the comedy Much Ado About ...

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