Intensional Or Accidentall? Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet And Much Ado

Title	Intensional Or Accidentall? Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet And Much Ado
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Intensional or Accidentall? Similarities between Romeo And Juliet and Much Ado
About Nothing!

     There are many similarities between Shakespeare's Much Ado About
Nothing  and Romeo and Juliet.  Was this Intentional or Accidental? Even though
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy, and Romeo and Juliet, is one of his
saddest tragedies, the two plots share many common incidents. Did Shakespeare
mean to have these coincidences or did they happen by accident? In both of his
dramatic works, the Masque is a key element furthering the infatuation of the
lovers. Also the balcony scenes in both plays are crucial because without them
the plot could never have reached its denouement. It seems that God came into
both of the plays in the spirit of the friars, because they had good plans to keep
love together.
     In both plays, the masque functions as a dramatic device which initiates
the love plot. It occurs in a social gathering, but not without the help of costumes.
If it were not for costumes the result of love might have been drastically different.
How was the masque used to get lovers together? In the case of Romeo and
Juliet, Romeo hears about the masque and decides to go, thinking that he might
be able to get away with this scheme. Upon entering he sees Juliet and right
away, he knows it is love. If he had not worn the costume, the hosts might have
ejected him from the party and he might not have met Juliet. Much Ado About
Nothing has a similar but also different approach towards love at the masque. In
Much Ado, Count Claudio is not able to gather the courage to court Hero. Instead
Don Pedro, who is one of Claudio's very close friends, offers to go and woo Hero
for his friend. This point is illustrated by Don Pedro for his great plan to get
Claudio and Hero together
"Thou wilt be like a lover presently/ And tire the hearer with a book of words. ...
That thou began'st to twist so fine a story? "1 Don Pedro's costume allows him to
woo Hero, posing as Claudio.


     Balcony love scenes are familiar from both plays. The love was disparate
in each of Shakespeare's plays. How are these scenes different but also similar?
In Romeo and Juliet, the balcony scene leads towards good love because Romeo
and Juliet are actually falling in love with each other. In Much Ado About Nothing
the scene is an act towards bad love and also to separation. We see that it is a
set up t...

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