Reading Question

1. Explain why the ending of the play proves that it is a comedy, and give specific examples from the play. What would have had to happen instead were this play a tragedy?

When it comes to comedy and tragedies, the defining factor that can be used to differentiate the two is the ending. At the end of a comedy, which Much Ado About Nothing is, there is always one of two things that happen. The first is that a baby can be born or the second, which is the case of this story, there is a marriage. In a tragedy though, there is almost always a death with a funeral. This is very different from Much Ado About Nothing where at the end Claudio and Hero get married which is the main story point of the whole play.