A review by sidharthvardhan
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

3.0

You could take the rating with a pinch of salt given that I generally tend not to enjoy the comedies much. I love Shakespeare tragedies or tragicomedies but his comedies fail on me. Part of it is becuase a comedy seem a bit unreal, the characters fall in love too quickly for example, and partially because there is too much of plot cramped in too little a space - a tragedy can just hit to centeral idea (example Medea) but a comedy must invariably go through motions - introduction of characters, set up, misunderstanding and conflict, resolution of same and happy endings - all the time retaining comic wits; it is too tight a rope to walk in a drama which must stay contained within time limits because of its very nature. Moreover, from few plays of Shakespeare I have read, it seems to be his comedies are comparively much shorter than tragedies or tragicomedies.