SOURCE: Dennis, Carl. “Wit and Wisdom in Much Ado About Nothing.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 13, no. 2 (spring 1973): 223-37.
In the following essay, Dennis explores the two modes of perception he maintains are at work in Much Ado about Nothing: wit and wisdom. In the end, Dennis asserts, wit is portrayed as an unreliable mode of perception.
