Much Ado About Nothing illustrates a kind of deliberately puzzling title that seems to have been popular in the late 1590s (ex “As You Like It”). Indeed, the play is about nothing. It follows the relationship between Claudio and Hero, which is constantly hampered by plots to disrupt it, and in the end, the play culminates in Beatrice and Benedick falling in love, which, because it was an event that was quite predictable, proves to …showed first 75 words of 3427 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3427 total…presents the fact that he probably loves himself, but not Hero. It’’s easy then, to doubt whether the love was ever real between the two characters characters. Why did it take so little effort to influence them? Bibliography Buckler, John; Hill, Bennet D.; McKay, John P.; A History of Western Society; pgs 485-562; Houghton Miffin Company; 1999 Hieatt, A. Kent; William Shakespeare; Encarta 98; 1998 Shakespeare, William; Much Ado About Nothing; Bantam Books; New York, New York; 1993