Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a classic illustration of the literary term "comedy of errors." Writers employ this genre when the sequences of events in a play is positively ridiculous and absurd an yet resolved happily Indeed, as Much Ado About Nothing progresses, rumors are overheard and lies are told, giving each character a different idea of who is who, and what is true, but by the final scene, the protagonists of both story …showed first 75 words of 644 total…

…showed last 75 words of 644 total… wed his brother's daughter as penance. At the wedding, Antonio's daughter is wearing a mask. When Claudio pledges to marry, the mask is removed, and he is married to Hero. Much Ado About Nothing, as shown in the examples above, is a play that illustrates the literary term "comedy of errors" very accurately. Despite near tragedy, all the complications are resolved so that all the characters, except for the protagonist, experience a happy ending.