Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" and his comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" contain protagonists, but it's the antagonists that have a greater impact on the play. The storylines have many similarities, and many comparisons can ... Mercutio, Friar Lawrence, and the Capulet and Montague house parents in "Romeo and Juliet" as they participate in the tragedy that happens in the play. In "Much Ado" Claudio, Don Pedro, and to some extent, Leonato can be perceived as villains by a modern audience as their actions reflect the chauvinism and patriarchy of Elizabethan ... happened and why it d...

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