The play written by William Shakespeare of Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy containing one main element that makes the play a comedy; it is the element of sex. This is a play that involves an elaborate chain of schemes, tricks, and deceit to achieve an ambiguous "true love" effect. The play is based around these tricks and schemes and is crucial for the plot development of the play to fit into the genre of romantic comedy providing only temporary harm to the characters and overall assisting to the play. The love mischief throughout the play and the movie, for that matter, leads to an interpretation of a potential tragedy, but ends up in a happy ending. This leads to an effect that suspends our disbelief within the play. Another sub-element of comedy in the play is the roles of minor characters such as the policeman and others. Also, marriage is a crucial component of the comedy in the play. All of these elements combine to produce another Shakespearean comedy.
             Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy of conspiracy. It involves suspense, question and has a detective story element. Within the comedy of plot, there is a social comedy involving Beatrice and Benedick. Through this couple as well as Claudio and Hero, the play explores the way people interact with each other. Shakespeare shows that love can be very logical but also very passionate. Claudio and Hero have a love that is soft, delicate and logical. Beatrice and Benedick on the other hand, are very passionately in love with each other and show this by quarreling constantly. Comedy starts to play its role in between these core of characters throughout the play. A comedy is not a comedy without evil surrounding it. When Claudio and Don Pedro put their plan into action at the masked ball, Don John appears. He acts as a blocking figure in this play and causes many problems for the lovers. Claudio, after being discouraged by don John by telling the prince wants her, decides ...