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Much Ado About Nothing According to Auden, “Since this is a comedy, we, the audience, know that all will… [work out] in the end, that Beatrice and Benedick…[and] Claudio and Hero will get happily married” (125). What the audience does not know is how the play will plot out. The reason why this quote applies to this paper is because W.H. Auden supports that Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by Shakespeare. “ It is so, indeed; he is no less than a… [overconfident] man. But…well, we are all… [human]” (5). Beatrice and Benedick say this in the beginning of the play. What the audience does not know yet is the fact that Beatrice has only met Benedick a few times yet already creates an abstract of how she does not like him. This is a prime example of how the witty dialogue already begins within a few sentences of the play. Much Ado About Nothing contains comic qualities by love affairs between the characters, witty dialogue, and marriage. One aspect of comedy that Much Ado About Nothing portrays is love affair. According to Auden, “ Beatrice and Benedick resist each other because, being both proud and intelligent, they do not wish to be helpless slaves of emotion” (126). Benedick and Beatrice hide thei