Summary:
Although `Much Ado About Nothing' is a very humorous play it also presents the audience with many important subjects, including love, appearance and reality, deception and delusion.
"I beseech your grace, pardon me; I was born to speak all mirth and no matter." So says Beatrice in 'Much Ado About Nothing'. To what extent do you find this a fair description of the play as a whole?
'Much Ado About Nothing' is a play filled with deceptions, secrets, disguises and misunderstandings. For that reason, the play is very humorous. However, even though the play is rather funny - it still deals with many significant issues in people's lives, such as love, appearance and reality, deception and delusion. Shakespeare, being a dramatist, understood the need for these issues to be in his plays to make them more meaningful and appealing.
Shakespeare uses a variety of techniques to create quite an amount of humour. One of the most evident techniques is the use of malapropisms. Dogberry.....
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