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The play suggests that love is not love without its masquerade-like sequence of poses and appearances, even if they must be imagined or faked. Don Pedro manipulates Benedick and Beatrice like a scientist conducting an experiment, or a playwright setting a scene. The lover is a piece in the game, a mask in the crowd, and everyone-no matter who they are-falls victim in the same way. Lovers in the play are like masked dancers: the pose and the situation matter more than who the other dancer really is. If you put people together in a certain way, a certain result occurs.

Altogether, these things suggest that love-like a play or masquerade-is a game based on appearances, poses and the manipulation of situations. Claudio can be reconciled with Hero only after her faked death. Benedick and Beatrice are brought together through an elaborate prank. Hero is won for Claudio by Don Pedro in disguise. Every step in romance takes place by way of masquerade. Love, in Much Ado About Nothing, is always involved with tricks, games and disguises.

William shakespeare much ado