Much Ado About Nothing

In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare combines a comic love-plot of two professedly single characters coming together and a darker plot of spurned love and reconciliation. These two plots occur against a backdrop of nobility, friendship, and are sumptuousness combined with deceptions and moments of burlesque comedy.

The subjects in the following pages include:

• Masks; much ado about noting
• Beatrice and Benedick
• Claudio and Hero
• Dogberry and Verges

See also:

• A modern text of Much Ado About Nothing
• Old spelling versions of Quarto and Folio
• The essential facts about the play.*

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