| What are the major themes in Much Ado About Nothing? | 1. Male/Female relationships 2. Appearance vs. Reality |
| Names, appearances, reputations, and identities of major characters. | Noting |
| A source of conflict in the plot | Rivalry |
| Frequent events of a romantic comedy. | Masquerade/mistaken identities |
| A common scene for mischief or villainy | The orchard |
| Who says, “man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion”? | Benedick |
| Who says to Claudio, “I have wood in thy name”? | Don Pedro |
| Who says “will you have me, lady?” To Beatrice? | Don Pedro |
| Who says that “we are the only love gods”? | Don Pedro |
| Who takes on one of “Hercules’ labors” to bring B&B together? | Don Pedro |
| Who says “I am not a man of many words”? | Don John |
| Who is described as looking “tartly” and “of a very melancholy disposition” | Don John |
| “I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in DP’s grace, and it better fits my blood…..” | Don John |
| Who has “borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in figure of a lamb the feats of a lion”? | Claudio |
| Who says “friendship is constant in all other things/save in office and affairs of love”? | Claudio |
| Who says “silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say much”? | Claudio |
| “I will live a bachelor” | Benedick |
| “But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace” | Benedick |
| “There’s a double meaning in that” | Benedick |
| “I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor can I woo in festive terms” | Benedick |
| “Get thee a wife, get thee a wife!” | Benedick |
| “Neighbor’s, you are tedious” | Leonato |
| He would rather be dead than have a “common stale” | Leonato |
| “Hath no man’s dagger here a point for me?” | Leonato |
| “I cannot see how sleeping should offend” | Dogberry |
| “If you take a thief..let him show himself what he is, and steal out of your company” | Dogberry |
| “O villain! Thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this!” | Dogberry |
| “O that I had been writ down an ass!” | Dogberry |
| “If it prove so, then loving goes by haps; some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps” | Hero |
| “One Hero died defiled; but I do live, and surely as I live, I am a maid” | Hero |
| Who is described as usually being “a pleasant-spirited lady” | Beatrice |
| “I was born to speak all mirth and no matter” | Beatrice |
| Who’s nickname is “Lady Disdain” | Beatrice |
| “He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard….” | Beatrice |
| “I cannot be a man with wishing; therefore I will die a woman with grieving” | Beatrice |
| Who advises Hero to “be ruled by your father”? | Antonio |
| Who proclaims himself “an ill singer”? | Balthasar |
| “There’s not a note of mine that’s worth noting” | Balthasar |
| “I have deceived even your very eyes. What your wisdoms could not discover, these shallow fools have brought to light.” | Borachio |
| Who is a self-proclaimed “gentleman” and captured by the night watch? | Conrade |
| “There is something strange misprision in the princes” | Friar Frances |
| Dogberry’s deputy. Serving his “partner” w/ his delusions of grandeur | Verges |
| The voice of reason who writes down the facts. | Sexton |
| Waiting woman who unknowingly partakes in a prank with sinister consequences against Claudio and Hero | Margaret |
| Waiting woman who joins with Hero in the prank to join Beatrice and Benedick. | Ursula |
Much ado about nothing
July 2, 2019