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Much Ado About Nothing Notes
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Much ado revision (general notes):- Romantic comedy basic plot - two main couples: beatrice and benedick, claudio and
hero. On one hand beatrice and benedick are both independent, outspoken and witty.
They are gulled into falling in love and end up getting married. Claudio woos hero and
they are gonna get married but don john tricks claudio into thinking hero is cheating so
he shames her, she fakes her death, then magically comes back after being cleared by
borachio and they also get married in the end
- You: formal
- Thou: informal
- ‘Nothing’ and ‘noting’ - truth and illusion (homophones)
- Repartee - wordplay that bounces between characters
- Prose: not loving, verse: loving but structured
Character/theme Adjectives Quotes
Beatrice Witty “and a good soldier too,
lady” – “and a good
soldier to a lady” – pg 5
“Signor Mountanto” –
double entendre,
Bold, audacious innuendo – pg 5
“he will hang upon him
like a disease”
Astute
“Where the bachelors
Rejects notion of love
sit”
and marriage
“A bird of my tongue is
better than a beast of
yours”
"Nature never framed a
woman’s heart Of prouder
stuff than that of Beatrice.
Disdain and scorn ride
sparkling in her eyes..."
- Hero
, "I had rather hear my dog
bark at a crow than a man
swear he loves me."
"I love you with so much
of my heart that none is
left to protest."
'Not till God make men of
some other metal than
earth.'"
Benedick Unfaithful + deceitful “he wears his faith but
according to Beatrice as the fashion of his
hat”
“and he were (in my
good books) I would
burn my study”
Contemptuous + witty
“Lady Disdain! Are you
yet living?”
Completely against love “truly I love none”
– appears aromantic
Spiteful + insulting
“she’s too low for a
high praise, too brown
for a fair praise”
“You are a rare
parrot-teacher”
“I will live a bachelor”
Leonato Tells daughters what to “If the Prince do solicit
do you in that kind, you
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