Much Ado About Nothing - Act Three

The first part of Act Three sees Hero conspiring to trick Beatrice, in the same way that the men tricked Benedick in Act Two.  As this is a comical part of the play, a large amount of the dialogue is written in verse, for example:

'Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour.There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice'

In Scene Two, once again Don John enters and the mood changes. He and Don Pedro begin causing trouble in Claudio and Hero's relationship. This serious tone is a large contrast to Scene Three, which is full of comical aspects. Scene Three contains the watch (e.g. Dogberry, Verges etc.) who create a lot of confusion, and generally get things wrong.

Scene 4 brings the story back to Benedick and Beatrice, typical of a romantic comedy in both Shakespeare's day, and the modern day. In most rom coms, a main plot and a sub plot take place at the same time, and if the story drifts to the sub plot, it is quickly returned to the main plot.  

Finally, Scene 5 again reverts back to the humorous aspects of the plot.  Dogberry, who is easily confused, is meant to tell Leonato of the plot to break up Hero and Claudio's marriage, but gets confused and doesn't.  Once again, the story has not taken the road the audience expect it too, and a more comical route has been taken instead.