Question: Comedy of intrigue is a genre that includes what comedy by William Shakespeare that is thought to have been written in 1598?
Context: Ugly Stik is a subsidiary company of Shakespeare, a fishing equipment retail company.  Ugly Stik is most well known for its fishing rods.  Shakespeare, originally called William Shakespeare, Jr.  Company, was founded by William Shakespeare, Jr. in 1897 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  The William Shakespeare, Jr.  Company changed its name to Shakespeare in 1915, then moved its base of operations to Columbia, South Carolina in 1970.  In 1976, Shakespeare introduced the Ugly Stik rod. The Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival (formerly Summer Shakespeare) at the University of Notre Dame is an annual festival that seeks to combine professional productions of the works of William Shakespeare with community outreach and educational programs.  The Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival is a part of the University of Notre Dame's Shakespeare initiative entitled "Shakespeare at Notre Dame", a program that recognizes the centrality of the study of Shakespeare in humanistic pedagogy at the University.  Its fifteenth season (summer of 2014) was known as the 15/150, also celebrating the 450th birthday of William Shakespeare, and the 150th anniversary of the first full production of Shakespeare at the university in 1864 (Records indicate the first performance of Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame took place in 1847, a collection of scenes also from "Henry IV)."  The anniversary season consisted of the Professional Company production of "Henry IV" (directed by Michael Goldberg), the Young Company performance of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (directed by West Hyler), and the annual ShakeScenes shows featuring actors of all ages from South Bend and the surrounding community. The comedy of intrigue, also known as the comedy of situation, is a genre of comedy in which dramatic action is prioritised over the development of character, complicated strategems and conspiracies drive the plot, and farcical humour and contrived or ridiculous dramatic situations are often employed.  Characterisation tends to be defined only vaguely and the plot gives the illusion of dynamic, constant movement.  The German philosopher Hegel argued that characters pursue their aims in such comedies via the use of deception.  The genre was first developed in the theatre of classical Rome by Plautus and Terence.  Examples of comedies of intrigue include Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Mandrake" (1524), the anonymous Italian play "The Deceived Ones" (1531), Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" (c. 1596) and "Much Ado About Nothing", Thomas Heywood's "The Wise Woman of Hoxton" (c. 1604), Molière's "Scapin the Schemer" (1671), and the plays of Aphra Behn and Thomas D'Urfey. As the last in the famed collection of sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare from 1592 to 1598, Sonnet 154 is most often thought of in a pair with the previous sonnet, number 153.  As A. L. Rowse states in "Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Problems Solved", Sonnets 153 and 154 "are not unsuitably placed as a kind of coda to the Dark Lady Sonnets, to which they relate."  Rowse calls attention to the fact that Sonnets 153 and 154 "serve quite well to round off the affair Shakespeare had with Emilia, the woman characterized as the Dark Lady, and the section of the Dark Lady sonnets".  Shakespeare used Greek mythology to address love and despair in relationships.  The material in Sonnets 153 and 154 has been shown to relate to the six-line epigram by the Byzantine poet known as Marianus Scholasticus, who published a collection of 3,500 poems called "The Greek Anthology".  When translated, the epigram resembles Sonnets 153 and 154, addressing love and the story of Cupid, the torch, and the Nymph's attempt to extinguish the torch. The Cobbe portrait is an early Jacobean panel painting of a gentleman which has been argued to be a life portrait of William Shakespeare.  It is displayed at Hatchlands Park in Surrey, a National Trust property, and the portrait is so-called because of its ownership by Charles Cobbe, Church of Ireland (Anglican) Archbishop of Dublin (1686–1765).  There are numerous early copies of the painting, most of which were once identified as Shakespeare.  The Cobbe original was only identified in the collection of the Anglo-Irish Cobbe family in 2006, and had until then been completely unknown to the world.  Evidence uncovered by researchers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust led to the claim, presented in March 2009, that the portrait is of William Shakespeare and painted from life.  Many scholars dismiss this theory and have provided evidence to identify the portrait as one of Sir Thomas Overbury The portrait has been the centrepiece of two exhibitions dedicated to it: "Shakespeare Found: a Life Portrait" at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, from April–October 2009 and "The Changing Face of William Shakespeare" at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, from February–May 2011.  An illustrated catalogue provides details of the painting and its provenance. Sonnet 86 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.  It is the final poem of the Rival Poet subsection of the Fair Youth sonnets in which Shakespeare writes about an unnamed young man and a rival poet competing for the youth's attention.  While the exact date of its composition is unknown, scholars generally agree that the Rival Poet series was written between 1598 and 1600 and published along with the rest of the sonnets in the 1609 Quarto. Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy.  He popularised the comedy of humours.  He is best known for the satirical plays "Every Man in His Humour" (1598), "Volpone, or The Fox" (c. 1606), "The Alchemist" (1610) and "Bartholomew Fair" (1614) and for his lyric poetry; he is generally regarded as the second most important English playwright during the reign of James I after William Shakespeare. Love's Labour's Won is a lost play attributed by contemporaries to William Shakespeare, written before 1598 and published by 1603, though no copies are known to have survived.  Scholars dispute whether it is a true lost work, possibly a sequel to "Love's Labour's Lost", or an alternative title to a known Shakespeare play. Palladis Tamia, subtitled "Wits Treasury", is a 1598 book written by the minister Francis Meres.  It is important in English literary history as the first critical account of the poems and early plays of William Shakespeare.  It was listed in the Stationers Register 7 September 1598. Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career.  The play was included in the "First Folio", published in 1623.
Answer: Much Ado About Nothing