Romeo and Juliet Compared to Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare has written many different categories of plays: comedies, tragedies, romances, and histories. Comparisons are abundant between many of Shakespeare’s works. Numerous comparisons can be made in characters, plot, and speech between Romeo and Juliet, which is a tragedy, and Much Ado About Nothing, which is a comedy.

First, corresponding characters in both plays include villains, lovers, and friends in addition to characters who provide comic relief. These works have a similar villain. Tybalt of Romeo and Juliet is similar to Don John in Much Ado About Nothing in that both characters do not approve of the lover‘s relationships and wish to break them up. Furthermore, Romeo and Juliet are similar to

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In addition, similarities in speech occur in these works. The comic relief in each play is the watch in Much Ado About Nothing and the servants in Romeo and Juliet. Both couples do end up together, although one is in life and the other in death. Oxford University Press, New York, 1969

Shakespeare, William. Suffer love is an apparent oxymoron because it consists of two dissimilar terms. Claudio and Hero, who are the leading couples in each play. However, in Much Ado About Nothing, the false death is discovered before there are any real deaths.

Bibliography

Epstein, Norrie. And in Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice asks Bene*censored*, “But for which of my good parts did you first suffer love for me?” (Shakespeare 5.

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