Clothing
Clothing is a pretty much universal (and timeless) status symbol, and clothing-as-symbolic pops up quite a bit in this play. It often tells us about a person’s station in life... much like today....
Cuckold's Horns
No—it's not a play on the word "horny." But it could very well have been—Shakespeare is all about the innuendo. "Horns" in Shakespeare's time symbolized that your wife was cheating on you; you...
Noting
Fun fact: in Shakespeare's day, "nothing" was pronounced as "noting." This clues us in to the fact that noting is central to all of the action: there's much ado about noting. And we mean all sorts...