How does the book relate to the title "Much Ado About Nothing" The play has comedy, romance, suspense, action and a lot of drama twisted into several hundred lines of verse. ... The play is important because it shows us that life itself is similarly enjoyable and foolish - our lives are "much ado about nothing." Undeniably, the play is about nothing; it merely follows the relationships of Claudio and Hero, and in the end, the play concludes in the two other main characters falling in love, which, because it was an event that was quite predictable, proves to be much ado about nothing. ......

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His use of puns in Much Ado About Nothing is worth "noting". Basically everything that happened in the play was set up by the characters and nothing withheld any credibility. ... Don Pedro is telling Claudio about the plot: What need the bridge much broader than the flood The fairest grant is the necessity Look What will serve is fit. ... Bishop 5 Indeed this play is a lot to do with nothing and "noting". ... The validity of the statement does not seem to concern them much until they find out by some other word of mouth that it was false. ...

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William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" is a romantic comedy which tells the love stories of the main characters Claudio and Hero, and Beatrice and Benedick. ... At the time Shakespeare wrote this play, at about 1599, Elizabeth I was queen of England. ... With Benedick and Beatrice their love is much more explosive, with the personalities of the two characters clashing from the start of the play. ... Beatrice's intelligence poses a challenge to all the male characters, and in particular, she and Benedick have arguments whereby they both try to tell the wittiest comment about ...

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Much ado about nothing is, in my opinion, William Shakespeare's best comedy. ... He says,""I may chance have some odd quirks and remains of wit broken on me, because I have rail'd so long against marriage."" (2.3.235-7) Although by this point, Benedick is changing his mind about marriage, this still emphasizes his previous views on women and marriage. Beatrice also feels the same way that Benedick does about marriage. ... A good example is when Beatrice is about to enter and Benedick says, "Will your Grace command me any service to the worlds end? ... Benedick and Beatrice are ...

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