“What my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?” | Benedict says this. He’s teasing Beatrice, they’re always fighting. they have a love/hate relationship |
“Can the world buy such a jewel?” | Claudio. It shows how infatuated and in love he is when he sees he |
“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.” | Hero. Right after they set up Beatrice |
“Gallants, I am not as I have been.” | Benedict. Changed his ways, not against love or marriage anymore |
“Even she, Leonato’s Hero, your Hero, every man’s Hero.” | Don John. everyone knows she is not a virtuous woman. She’s been with a lot of guys |
“Did I not tell you she was innocent?” | Friar. He believed she was innocent the whole time. He set up the plan to preserve her reputation |
“You always end with a jade’s trick: I know you of old.” | Beatrice. I know who you are, you’re always like this. There’s history between the two. |
“Thou and I are too wiseto woo peaceably.” | Benedict. cannot flirt or be together, without killing each other verbally |
“On my soul my cousin is belied.” | Beatrice. saying this about Hero, saying she’s been slandered and lied about. saying her life has been ruined |
“Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.” | Claudio. upset at Don Pedro, thinks he’s taking his his girl. Thinks he cannot even trust his best friend. |
“Will your grace command me any service to the world’s end?” | Benedict. anything to go anywhere away from Beatrice |
“There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her. They never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them.” | Leonato. every time these two get together, they always fight, constantly bickering/teasing |
“If I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way.” | Don John. He is willing to mess up Claudio’s plan with whatever it takes. Shows how hateful/jealous he feels about Claudio |
“Adieu, be vigitant, I beseech you.” | Dogberry. means keep good watch, messing up his words. good example of a malapropism |
“Hath no man’s dagger here a point for me?” | Leonato. publicly accused, he can’t believe his daughter disgraced their family and herself |
Beatrice | Leonato’s niece and Hero’s cousin. Benedict’s love interest. Has a sharp tongue and doesn’t want to admit that she loves Benedict. |
Benedick | aristocratic soldier who is friends with Don Pedro and Claudio. Wages a war of wits against Beatrice. Doesn’t want to admit that he loves Beatrice. |
Claudio | soldier who fought under Don Pedro. Falls in love with Hero while he visits in Messina. Easily persuaded/gullable. Marries Hero at the end. |
Hero | daughter of Leonato and the cousin of Beatrice. Falls in love with Claudio. Fakes her own death to avoid a bad reputation. |
Don Pedro | nobleman from Aragon. Friends with Benedick and Claudio. Close friends with Leonato. Easily persuaded/gullable. Most politically and socially powerful. |
Leonato | elderly noble. Hero’s father and Beatrice’s uncle. His house is the setting of the play. |
Don John | villain of the play. Don Pedro’s brother. tries to ruin the happiness of Hero and Claudio due to envy. |
Margaret | Hero’s serving woman, who helps Borachio and Don John deceive Claudio into thinking that Hero is unfaithful. Her love interest is Borachio |
Borachio | associate of Don John. helps Don John deceive Claudio into thinking Hero is unfaithful. Margaret’s love interest. |
Conrade | associate of Don John and entirely devoted to him. Very intimate with him, some think he loved Don John. |
Dogberry | the law. the main policeman. takes his job seriously, but tends to use the wrong words when trying to interrupt meaning. Makes him a very comical character. |
Verges | deputy of Dogberry. other policeman. |
Antonio | Leonato’s elderly brother. Beatrice’s father. |
Balthasar | A waiting man in Leonato’s household and a musician. tries to trick Benedick along with Don Pedro, and Claudio into thinking Beatrice loves him. Also tried to flirt with Margaret at the party. |
Ursula | one of Hero’s waiting women. |
Much Ado About Nothing Test
July 9, 2019