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Much Ado About Nothing illustrates a kind of deliberately puzzling title that
seems to have been popular in the late 1590s (ex 8220As You Like It8221). Indeed, the play is
about nothing it follows the relationships of Claudio and Hero (which is constantly
hampered by plots to disrupt it), and in the end, the play culminates in the two other main
characters falling in love (Beatrice and Benacensored), which, because it was an event that
was quite predictable, proves to be 8220much ado about nothing8221.
The pronunciation of the word nothing would, in the late 16th Century, have
been noting, and so the title also apparently << Login/Signup for Full Text>>