MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Review

called the bastard son, friends with Borachioand Conrade, Don Pedro’s brother. Don John
2. ___________________________ – Leonato’s daughter, in love with Claudio, cousin of Beatrice. Hero
3. ___________________________ – woos Margaret by the name of Hero, captured by the watch. Borachio
4. ___________________________ – swears he will live a bachelor, from Padua, Beatrice’s sparring partner, under the command of Don Pedro. Benedick
5. ___________________________ – Governor of Messina, has only one heir named Hero. Leonato
6. ___________________________ – comes up with the plan to hide Hero and publish that she has died. Friar Francis
7. ___________________________ – the Master Constable, never seems to get his words right, in charge of the night watch. Dogberry
8. ___________________________ – swears she will never marry, the niece of Leonato. Beatrice
9. ___________________________ – Leonato’s brother. Antonio
10. ___________________________ – in love with Hero, from Florence, under the command of Don Pedro. Claudio
11. ___________________________ – commander of the army, prince of Araggon, arranges a marriage for Claudio. Don Pedro
12. ___________________________ – mistaken for Hero at a most inconvenient time, flirtatious especially with Balthasar and Borachio. Margaret
“She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the Prince’s jester, that I was duller than a great thaw, huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood like a man at a mark with a whole army shooting at me. She speaks poniards and every word stabs.”Speaker; About? Speaker: Benedick, to Beatrice
And when I lived, I was your other wife. And when you loved, you were my other husband.”Speaker; To? Speaker: Hero, to Claudio
“Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.”Speaker; About? Speaker: Sexton, about Conrade & Borachio
“Oh, that I were a man for his sake! Or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood is melted into curtsies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too. He is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing; therefore I will die a woman with grieving.”Speaker?About?To? Speaker: Beatrice, about Claudio, to Benedick
“I say thou hast belied mine innocent child. Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart, and she lies buried with her ancestors, O, in a tomb where never scandal slept, Save this of hers, framed by thy villainy.”Speaker?About?To? Speaker: Leonato, about Hero, to Claudio& Don Pedro
“But know that I have tonight wooed Margaret, the Lady Hero’s gentlewoman, by the name of Hero. She leans me out at her mistress’ chamber window, bids me a thousand times goodnight.”Speaker; To? Borachio to Conrade
“Oh, my lord, when you went onward on this ended action, I looked upon her with a soldier’s eye that liked, but had a rougher task in hand than to drive liking to the name of love. But now I am returned and that war thoughts have left their places vacant…saying I liked her ere I went to wars.”About?To? Claudio, about Hero to Don Pedro
“That is the sum of all…my dear friend Leonato hath invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at least a month, and he heartily prays some occasion may detain us longer. I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart.” Don Pedro
“I am engaged. I will challenge him. I will kiss your hand, and so I leave you.”Speaker; About?To? Speaker: Benedick, about Claudio, to Beatrice
“If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.”Speaker?To? Speaker: Don John to Conrade
The play takes place in the town of ___________________________. Messina
24. Leonato learns from the letter that Don Pedro has “bestowed much honor on a young man from Florence named ___________________________”. Claudio
It is decided at the ball that the marriage between Hero and Claudio will be married in a ___________________________. week
31. Don John offers ___________________________ the sum of___________________________ ducats to woo Margaret and it look as if he is wooing Hero. Borachio; 1000
Beatrice and Benedick discover that they have been________________________into thinking that they were in love with each other. Tricked
Fun Fact: William Shakespeare was born April __________, 1564, and died on April___________, 1616. 23;23
Fun Fact: William Shakespeare was the eldest son and third child of John Shakespeare and___________________________ Arden. Mary
Fun Fact: William Shakespeare grew up in the town of ___________________________. Stafford upon Avon