Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing
By William Shakespeare

The play Much Ado About Nothing is one of the best plays I have read. It is sarcastic, exciting, and suspense filled. Shakespeare does a tremendous job of relating the characters to one another. The play has an awesome story line and a lot of humor to hold the audience’s attention.
Much Ado About Nothing is about a man named Claudio who is the lord of Florence. Claudio wants to marry Hero, the daughter of Leonato, who is the governor of Messina. As this marriage is being arranged there are many sub-plots taking place. One of the sub-plots is that Hero has a cocky cousin named Beatrice who continually is fighting with, or mocking, Claudio’s friend Benedick, a lord of Padua.
As the marriage draws nearer Don John, the bastard brother of Don Pedro, prince of Arragon, plots against Hero, for no reason, to make it look ...