Watching a play is completely different from watching a film. When watching a movie, you have two options: either watch it at home on the couch with a bag of chips, or go to the theater with a bucket of popcorn. Why do we waste even two hours of our time sitting down and watching a movie? Above all, we watch movies to waste time. When people are bored, we watch movies to pass the time. Well, before we could make movies, people would go see a play, which is a totally different experience than going to the movies. A lot of these plays that people were going to see were written by a man named Shakespeare. William Shakespeare is probably the greatest play of all time. Two of his plays, Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear, are both wonderful plays with different but similar narrative structure or plots. Much Ado About Nothing is a story about Hero and how the love of her life, Claudio, plans to marry her. However, a few envious people try to ruin everything, leading Hero to fake his death and Claudio to think Hero was unfaithful and then pass away. However, at the end of the play, Hero reveals himself; Claudio realized that people were lying and that Hero was faithful and the play ends with a double marriage. In King Lear, two different families are betrayed and two different fathers make bad decisions regarding their children that ultimately lead to one of the men going blind and the other to dying. Yet, according to Arthur Rosenblatt, this is not the whole of the play: "Moreover, the plot, involving two older men and their respective family problems, is only a small part of the play. » (Rosenblatt, Arthur S.). In Shakespeare's plays King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing, their narrative structures have a similar quality...... middle of paper ......aos reigns. (Boston, Gabriella) as well as the Edgar trick he played on his father in King Lear by making him fall off an imaginary cliff. This play has some similarities, but overall the plot development is different. Works Cited Bennett, Ray. "'Much ado for nothing'." Hollywood journalist. December 28, 2007: 25. Electronic library. Internet. January 19, 2014. Boston, Gabriella. “Review of Much Ado About Nothing…” Washington Times (November 16, 2002): D2. Rep. in Shakespearean criticism. Ed. Michelle Lee. Flight. 88. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Information Resource Center. Internet. January 19, 2014. Heath, Sue. "RSC: Much Ado About Nothing, Northern Stage, Newcastle". Northern Echo. November 2, 2006: 13. Electronic library. Internet. January 19, 2014.Igleheart, Erin “King Lear”. Hutchinson Encyclopedia. 2011. Electronic library. Internet. January 19, 2014. Rosenblatt, Arthur S. King Lear. Barron's, 2004. Electronic Library. Internet. January 19. 2014.