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Much Ado About Nothing is a Shakespearean comedy that combines both hilarity and seriousness. Many serious questions such as honor, shame and court politics are defused by comedy, as well as by the “Forms of Confusion” John Creaser discussed in his essay. Creaser defined the word confusion, as used by Shakespeare, in many ways: ruin, shamefulness, embarrassment, disorder, com- motion. All of these definitions are invoked by Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing. The plot of this play is based upon deliberate deceptions and misconceptions. The major misunderstanding of the play is that of a main female character’s, Hero, chastity or lack of it. During the Renaissance a woman’s chastity was extremely important and marriage to an unchaste woman was socially unacceptable. Claudio, the young man who is in love with and engaged to Hero, is duped into believing that she has been unfaithful. This resulted in Hero’s disgrace and was the crux of the story. The play revolved around this confusion brought about by Don John, the play�