Q) What have you learnt about attitudes in love and marriage in Shakespeare in your study of Much Ado About Nothing?
A) Much Ado About Nothing -was written in the time of Elizabethan England. In this century, it is historical knowledge that shows us that male status, honour and power ruled over femininity. Women were in a patriarchal world and dominated over. Men married women so they could own them or otherwise seen as prostitutes to be owned. In this play attitudes of the men towards marriage are much different to those of the women in the play.