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The Role Of Satire In Much Ado About Nothing

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In the play, “Much Ado about Nothing”, Shakespeare creates comedy not from humorous situations but deriving it from the characters themselves and their manners. Whilst it also contains some standard devices such as misperceptions, disguises and false reports, this can be interpreted for both noble and distasteful reasons. In the play whether deception is acceptable or not depends on the intentions of the deceivers; if the intention is to promote happiness, then this creates comedy but if the deceiver intends harm then this creates aspects of tragedy. Therefore “Much Ado About Nothing” also contains elements of a tragi-comedy, for example the shaming and denouncement of Hero due to false pretence instigated by numerous characters.
While the
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