Similarities Between Much Ado About Nothing And Twelfth Night

This essay talks about the role of love as it used in Shakespeare’s comedies. It directly talks about “Much Ado about Nothing” and “Twelfth Night”, and how they use love in their stories. “Shakespeare expects us to accept wonder as having some kind of value in itself and in its relations to the action that has gone before. We are presented with the wonderful as an incitement to knowledge and to pleasure; and we are asked also to consider the dramatic fact that those who participate in the happy ending must be ready to set aside their human confinement to the probable and accept an intrusion of the improbable into their lives.” (262-263) Wonder and love are on equal footing in Shakespeare. He expects us to accept that the characters fall in love with each other as well. Love is a vital part of every romantic comedy whether it’s a play written by Shakespeare or a movie like “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”. The essay also makes a note of how the characters change through the plays and compares how it works in both stories. The author of the essay
The implications of her not being a virgin plays on the fear of cuckoldry. As well as challenging the then era’s concepts of how women should act. It contradicts the prescribed performative for the female gender. This can also be used to argue that similar performatives being used in romantic comedies is a hindrance to storytelling, and halts progression of the genre. As well as the real lack of change in the characters in both “Much Ado about Nothing” and the romantic comedies of