Elements of Comedy- Act 2 Scene 3
OLD COMEDY
Bawdiness:

• 'there's not a note of mine that's worth the noting' (54) sexual reference, noting, note= penis

Double entendre:

• 'I cannot tell what to think of it. But that she loves him with an enraged affection' (103) punctuation causes double meaning. 
• 'she found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet?' (137) sexual innuendo found them between the sheets literally, or the letters

NEW COMEDY
Romance:

• 'she loves him with enraged affection' (102) romantic reference to feelings for Benedick
• 'That's her torment' (126) her love is destroying her, romantic
• 'she'll be up twenty times a night' (131) can't sleep, love is so strong
• 'down upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs, beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses' (146) she is distraught

Reuniting:

• 'Here comes Beatrice. By this day, she's a fair lady!' Benedick and Beatrice reunited. Interesting because Benedick now knows she loves him, different tone lighter, kinder 

Fast Paced:

• 'I did never think that lady would have loved any man' (94) witty comments in a fast paced conversation about Beatrice

Witty:

• 'We'll fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth' (39) 
• 'torment the poor lady worse' (155)
• 'he is unworthy so good a lady' (202) reverse psychology
• 'merely a dumb-show' (210)
• 'you take pleasure, then, in the message?' (244)

Gulling/deception

• 'See you where Benedick hath hid himself?' (38) they know Benedick is there and within ear shot
• 'What was it you told me of today? That your niece was in love with Signor Benedick?' (92) setting up the gulling of Benedick
• 'she should so dote on Signor Benedick' (98) Beatrice loves him
• 'she loves him with an enraged affection' (103)
• 'Bait the hook well, this fish will bite!' (110)
• 'she will do a desperate outrage to herself' (150)
• 'she's an excellent sweet lady... she is virtuous' (157)
• 'Hero thinks surely she will die' (170)
• ''tis very possible he will scorn it' (176)
• 'this can be no trick' (213)