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An exploration of how the play Much Ado About Nothing falls within the genre of comedy. Much Ado About Nothing is a play that Shakespeare wrote as a comedy for the Elizabethan audience. In this essay I am going to analyse and study the characters that provide comedy and the different aspects of comedy in the play. I will look at the language that makes the audience laugh and how it shapes one of the main themes, comedy. I am going to try to investigate what Shakespeare does and what methods and characters he uses to produce a comical feel to the play. The two sets of characters that offer comedy are Dogberry and Beatrice and Benedick. But what I am going to try and find out is what they do and how they do it, and how that makes the audience laugh. The most obvious source of comedy in the...

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