One of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, Much Ado about Nothing uses a variety of techniques to illustrate humor and comicality but is still able to develop the nature of love. Literary and visual techniques such as puns, dramatic irony, distortion of the truth, caricatures, slapstick and disguise are used to depict comedy in Acts 1 – 5. At the start of Much Ado about Nothing, the messenger informs the people of Messina that Don Pedro and his soldiers have returned from a victorious battle. When the messenger mentions Benedick who is a brave soldier, loyal to Prince Don Pedro, smart, rich, witty, generous and handsome, Beatrice makes sarcastic comments about him. Wit is mostly used through Beatrice and Benedick’s love hate relationship. An example of wit in Act one is when Beatrice makes fun of Benedick, indicating that he is not a very skilled soldier and Beatrice will eat all of his killings that she describes is none. BEATRICE “I pray you, how many hath he killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath he killed? For indeed I promise to eat all of his killings” The obvious comical scene within Act 1 is distributed with the two protagonists Beatrice and Benedick. In Shakespearean period the role of women in society was to have little power however Beatrice goes against that by being witty and clever with smart remarks. Due to her continuous conflict against Benedick, she produces comedy in the form of mocking physical features and aspects of his personality. Beatrice speaks arrogantly and hostilely towards Benedick, which then further goes against conformity. This is shown by the way she condemns Benedick portraying him as a disease named the “Benedick” that is easier caught than the plague. The use of these words is humorous due to the fact she always wants the upper hand in the competition of wit, outsmarting the notorious Benedick. BEATRICE “O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease! He is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker runs presently mad.” We can infer that there are numerous attributes that contribute to the humor and comedy of Act 1 in Much Ado about Nothing, the most noticeable element is the battle of wit between Beatrice and Benedick. During the masked ball, the prince Don Pedro planned to make Beatrice and Benedick fall in love by trickery. The scene from Act 2 that is set in a garden and the audi