Much Ado About Nothing is a Shakespearean comedy that combines both hilarity and seriousness. Many serious questions such as honor, shame and court politics are defused by comedy, as well as by the "Forms of Confusion" John Creaser discussed in his essay. ... Dogberry and Verges by their very nature, silliness and slapstick, make the play a comedy, so it is appropriate that it is these two who put the play back on its original comedic course. ... The genre of comedy employs many different comedic elements in the pursuit of humor as recognized be John Creaser. Ofte...

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As a result, from a thorough analysis of the play Much Ado About Nothing," by William Shakespeare, it can be concluded that it is indeed a Comedy because of its many glaring constituents that associate it with a Comedy. ... One indication that strongly supports the assertion that Much Ado About Nothing is a Comedy is the title. ... To be considered a Comedy the play must almost always culminate in a joyous procession or union. ... Comedy's reject bareness and urge on love as was clearly seen in the end of the play. ... The plays title, the use of figurative masking, the use of dec...

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It had all the elements of the time period drama, romance, action, and comedy. ... To be a comedy a story must contain comedic characteristics. ... In the comedic sense it shows 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 Nothing to comedies from the present is simple because every comedic story has to contain at least one of these characteristics to make it a co...

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