| Signor Benedick hails from this city in Northern Italy | Padua |
| a musician in don Pedro’s company | Balthasar |
| leonato’s kind and beautiful daughter, with whom Claudio falls in love | Hero |
| Province in Italy which is home to Leonato and his family | Messina |
| leonato’s niece and Hero’s cousin. She is good-humored and witty, yet also loving. Her exchanges with Benedick are clever and funny | Beatrice |
| the constable of messina, who is in charge of the night watch. he has some comic speeches which confuse some characters with malapropisms | dogberry |
| Claudio is from this city in Tuscany | florence |
| one of don Pedro’s soldiers. he is witty in trading insults with Beatrice, and, although he vows not to, he succumbs to love and marries | signor Benedick |
| when others talk about the ______, they mean Don Pedro | prince |
| Borachio confides the details of the plot to ruin Hero with this fellow soldier | Conrade |
| the play begins with news of the arrival of this prince of Aragon who is returning from the war | don Pedro |
| the priest who is an officiate at the wedding of hero and Claudio. he believes that Hero is innocent, and he suggests pretending that she is dead | friar Francis |
| province in northeastern Spain which is home to don Pedro | aragon |
| one of the female servants in leonato’s household. she is seen with man at hero’s window by Claudio and Don Pedro, and they mistake her for Hero | Margaret |
| don John is often referred to as the ________ by other characters | bastard |
| one of hero’s gentlewomen. she is a part of the plot to deceive Beatrice into believing that Benedick loves her | ursula |
| governor of messina and father of hero, a respectable elderly nobleman | leonato |
| dogberry’s deputy constable | verges |
| a soldier who connives with don John, using his relationship with Margaret to make it appear that Hero has betrayed Claudio | borachio |
| don pedro’s illegitimate brother, a surly trouble-maker, who is the villain of the play | don john |
| leonato’s brother and hero’s uncle | Antonio |
| a young man who fought in the war with don Pedro. on his return, he falls in love with hero. he is often very quick to leap to negative conclusions about other characters | count Claudio |
| a public official who records the testimony at the trial of Conrade and Borachio | sexton |
much ado about nothing crossword
July 7, 2019