Much ado about nothing is a comic play in which there is a theme of love and deception. It is about people making something out of things that are not there, and people making things out of noting, noticing what other persons in the ... seen" by someone. At the beginning of the play, Benedick is a light hearted bachelor who is set in his ways. He is an unconventional lover who will have nothing to do with commitment or marriage. He thinks of himself as a funny, witty, "manly" man. In those days a manly man is one who has value in ... the end of the scene, Benedick is no longer an unconventio...

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... the performance of these plays there was no scenery so greattime was taken when developing the characters and the plot so theplays would be entertaining. A Midsummers Night's Dream and MuchAdo About Nothing are just two of the comedies Shakespeare wrote. These two plays have many things in common where as Measure forMeasure is a problem play with a totally different tone. Comparingand ... ones to me are that the play ends happily, it isfunny and it made me laugh. Shakespeare wrote Much Ado About Nothing which is also acomedy, but it is a different type of comedy than A MidsummerNight's ...

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