romantic-comedy

In terms of plot, Much Ado About Nothing is essentially a part of the oft-scorned “romantic-comedy” genre.

comedy

Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of Claudio's career.

comedy/drama

Much Ado About Nothing is Shakespeare's famous comedy/drama about the war of power and understanding between men and women and the disguises they wear in their romantic relationships.

classic Shakespearean comedy

Ado About Nothing is a classic Shakespearean comedy featuring some of the Bard’s favorite themes, including trysts between lovers, battles of the sexes, deception, love, and marriage.

bitter-sweet comedy

Much Ado about Nothing is a bitter-sweet comedy which strikingly displays the operations of male chauvinism.

comedy of manners

Much Ado about Nothing might be considered the first comedy of manners In England, but the genre really flourished during the Restoration period.

comedy, love, and drama

With a plot that seems to borrow ideas from Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing is a mashup of comedy, love, and drama.

screwball comedies

Ado About Nothing is Shakespeare’s answer to the golden age of screwball comedies: an Elizabethan an Elizabethan's Girl Friday or Bringing Up Baby.

literary art

Ado About Nothing is that unique work of literary art that is generally liked by scholars, critics, and the average theatre-goer.

courtly love and romance

Much ado About Nothing is a play of courtly love and romance, courtly love is about love and falling in love, where virture is rewarded and viciousness is prevented.

relationships, love, deceive and hatred

Much ado about nothing was written by William Shakespeare in 1595.It is about relationships, love, deceive and hatred.

meddling comedies

Ado About Nothing is one of those meddling comedies where the whiff of liberation, the urgency of desire and the need for mischief are the spur for misbehaviour, mucking about in other people’s business and the path to true love being no straighter than Spaghetti Junction.

Intermediate level reader

The Much Ado About Nothing is an adapted Intermediate level reader written by William Shakespeare.

a whirlwind race to the finish line of happily ever after

Weaving wit, romance, comedy, and even an evil plot, Much Ado About Nothing is a whirlwind race to the finish line of happily ever after.

humorous and dramatic

Much Ado About Nothing, tells the simultaneously humorous and dramatic tale of two interesting love stories and the shenanigans that come with them.

powerful exploration of the struggle for love, identity and self-knowledge

Beneath its witty surface, Much Ado About Nothing is a powerful exploration of the struggle for love, identity and self-knowledge in a male-dominated world – as relevant today as ever.

a short short story

For those of you unfamiliar with the genre, the genre's basically a short short story.

a play

Ado About Nothing is a play about love, relationships, truth and illusion, reality and disguise, trickery, deception, male honor and female virtue, and villainy.