Was the play Much ado about nothing true?

Question:Was the play realistic in terms of how people lived in shakespeare's time?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Was the play realistic in terms of how people lived in shakespeare's time?

Shakespeare didn't set the play in Elizabethan England, but in the Italian city of Messina in an unspecified time. So the story is removed from reality to that extent. Many aspects of the plot, including some of the relationships between characters, are borrowed from earlier works, so the behavior of men and women in the play is based partly on Shakespeare's observations of human nature as he saw in in his day-to-day life, and partly on the behavior of fictional characters in the works of other authors. Some of the attitudes expressed by characters in the play (ideas about love and marriage, for example, or about the nature of men and women) reflect beliefs that were common in Shakespeare's time and place, but much of what the characters think and feel belongs to the imaginary world of stage comedy.