Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing'.....

Thoughts on the Play

1.  Seems to be one with dark humour surrounding it.
2. There is a lot of characterization of time, place and how each role is acted out or played and always at the start of each Act or towards that starting of each Scene.
3. Every scene seems to be plotted to harbour some humour as well as some manipulation in the way of a romantic jest, or when love is indeed professed by the characters
4. Dispute a lot between Benedict and Beatrice.

I have now established that there seems to be a lot of pending chaos towards the end of the play and there is evil at work.
But that at the beginning it seems even before the war there was love between the character, and that, that was the reason nobody professed there love for the other, and where there was no time to build upon it.

When upon speaking to Don Pedro in Act One Scene One;

O my Lord,

When you went onward on this ended action,

I looked upon her with a sodier's eye,

That liked, but had a rougher task in hand

Than to drive liking to the name of love;

But now I am returned, and that war-thoughts

Have left their places vacant, in their rooms

Come thronging soft and delicate desires,

All prompting me how fair young Hero is,

Saying I liked her ere I went to wars.

This also written in the way of poetry shows, that shakepeare has made this scene, where love should be obviously shown, protested by Claudio who's found his heart yearning for Hero's affection. He makes it romantic and hence seems to speak of the romance he feels for Hero in such a way that it's portrayed as being so.