Reading Journal (much ado about nothing): Act three

• opens with a scene that mirrors the scene in which Benedick is tricked into believing Beatrice loves him, and in the same way the use of staging and slapstick humour as Beatrice tries to listen in on the conversation
• The next scene sees Benedick mocked by his friends in a very macho and bawdy fashion- with lots of innuendo and references to the cuckolds horns
• the latter half of scene two sees a development of the drama in the play- Don John's intiates his new plan, and informs Claudio of Hero's supposed adultery
• We are now introduced to the Dogberry and the watchmen. Dogberry has a habit of getting his words wrong and is the plays figure of comedic imcopetence
• The watchmen (who are associated with Dogberry so are more often than not portrayed as comedic characters also) are also an important part of the drama since they over hear Borachio and Conrad, and seemingly foil them by capturing them
• Conrad and Borachio's capture should have foiled Don John's Plan, but In the last scene of this Dogberry's comedic mixing up of words andantics confuses Leonato so much that he doesn't get the message- in advertently causing the dramatic climax in act 4