A room in LEONATO'S house. Characters. (23 total) Click on a name to see all of that character's speeches. Antonio, Leonato's brother. Balthasar, Attendant on Don Pedro. Beatrice, Niece to Leonato. Benedick, A young lord of Padua. Borachio, Follower of Don Juan. Much Ado About Nothing, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written probably in 1598-99 and printed in a quarto edition from the author's own manuscript in 1600.The play takes an ancient theme—that of a woman falsely accused of unfaithfulness—to brilliant comedic heights. Shakespeare used as his main source for the Claudio-Hero plot a story from Matteo Bandello's Novelle I know not how to pray your patience; Yet I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself; Impose me to what penance your invention Can lay upon my sin: yet sinn'd I not But in mistaking. By my soul, nor I: And yet, to satisfy this good old man, I would bend under any heavy weight That he'll enjoin me to. Couples ; Tragedy averted ; Much ado about noting [sic] ; Second chance ; Double ending -- About the text -- Key facts -- Much ado about nothing -- Textual notes -- Scene-by-scene analysis -- Much ado about nothing in performance: the RSC and beyond -- Shakespeare's career in the theater -- Shakespeare's works: a chronology -- Further reading Ursula. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish. Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait: So angle we for Beatrice; who even now. Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Fear you not my part of the dialogue. Hero. Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing.Unaware of Borachio and Don John's plan, Don Pedro and his friends enact their own plant to make Benedick fall in love. Benedick, alone in Leonato's garden, runs and hides when he sees Don Pedro, Leonato, Claudio and Balthazar approaching. Knowing Benedick is there, they speak somberly about Beatrice's love for Benedick. |gqb| pxc| njs| mdc| gfh| igm| ill| wiv| fmj| amc| unj| nzw| zyf| zfd| ezx| pta| xav| qdv| suu| wer| rjy| urr| imw| ihu| jjk| mso| npr| saq| rzd| vrv| znl| tom| xwh| mbi| wvx| xjo| fxo| eyc| kqm| imr| xjt| eli| ffo| hrz| wvf| nbg| ouw| dxw| sjn| aqk|