In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare the role of deceit is played to the fullest to achieve the farcical effect that Shakespeare intended to put on "true love." Nearly every character is effected in one way or another by this never ceasing deceit. Deceit is used to make characters fall into love, out of love, and back into love by the completion of the play. Much ado About Nothing is a play that involves an elaborate network of schemes, tricks, and deceit to achieve a satirical "true love" effect. The first event of the deceit occurs in Act...
of this romantic comedy. The happy ending being yet another trick where Claudio is led to believe that he is marrying Hero's cousin but ends up marrying Hero herself: "Another Hero!" V, iv, 63

Much ado About Nothing is a play that involves an elaborate network of schemes, tricks, and deceit to achieve a satirical "true love" effect. The play is based around these tricks and schemes and is crucial for the plot development of Much Ado About Nothing to fit into the genre of romantic comedy providing only temporary harm to the characters and overall assisting the play.