Much Ado About Nothing, although interspersed with dark moments, is a comedy that ends with the expectation of multiple marriages. Shakespeare's plays usually explore themes of love and marriage. Common characteristics of his works include rural settings, mistaken identities and disguises, complex plots, disputes within characters, separations and reunions. Tension is usually built up around the various trials and tribulations that the protagonists must overcome. In Othello, Iago wants to destroy the relationship between Othello and Cassio by accusing Desdemona of infidelity; unlike Don John, he is successful. In Romeo and Juliet, Lord Capulet's invective and indignation towards Juliet can be compared to Leonato's soliloquy in which he wishes Hero, Beatrice and Benedick to be portrayed as slightly older than Claudio and Hero, to suggest their cynical attitude towards love, as well as to act as an obstacle against young lovers. In the opening scenes it is also clear that Claudio and Hero are already in love and it is quite clear that this version of Much Ado About Nothing was intended to present a harmonious ending. In contrast, Iqbal Khan's 2012 stage version is set in modern-day Delhi, India. The themes explored in Much Ado About Nothing resonate in the Indian setting, in terms of arranged marriages and how a woman's loss of honor is linked to her family's reputation, which is linked to the important issue of honor killings , because in a sense Hero had an honor killing, in the words of Leonato: “She died, my Lord, but as long as her slander lived,” her death restored honor to herself and her virginity was an important virtue and female infidelity was unforgivable, a woman's honor and her family's honor would be lost. Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing presents the two female stereotypes that existed during the Elizabethan era through the characters of Beatrice and Hero. Hero is a typical girl, polite and modest. Hero barely speaks, at no point in the play do we ever hear about Hero's feelings and opinions towards her marriage to Claudio, her silence reveals information about the values ​​of the other characters, and just as her name ironically suggests, she is the real protagonist at the center of the show. Beatrice is the exact opposite, she is witty and has a sharp tongue, she is strong and independent, and since she speaks for herself she would have been seen as a shrew to be tamed. Both characters highlight society's prejudicial behavior and injustice towards women, this is evident in the finale of Act 4, scene 1, when Beatrice says "oh, if I were a man for her own sake! Or if I had a friend would be a man for my own good." purpose!" Her frustration and anger at the mistreatment and inequality of women