Much Ado About Nothing "story outline"

Much Ado About Nothing was written in 1598 and was first published in 1600.

In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare combines a comic love-plot of two professedly single characters coming together and a darker plot of spurned love and reconciliation. These two plots occur against a backdrop of nobility, friendship, and are sumptuousness combined with deceptions and moments of burlesque comedy.

(taken from, http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/plays/adosubj.html)