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 …
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… 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.