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 Much Ado About Nothing
| Who is the head of the household where the men go when they return home (the beginning of the play)? | Much Ado About Nothing
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| When Hero is supposedly having relations before her wedding, who is really in the window? | Much Ado About Nothing
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'Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more'. 'Hey nonny, nonny' is a line from the song but it is the last line, not the first.
| At the very begining of the play, who asks this of the messenger, "I pray you is Signor Montanto returned from the wars or no?" | "Much Ado About Nothing" Quotes
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Beatrice. "Signor Montanto" is actually Signor Benedick of Padua as explained by Beatrice's cousin Hero when the messenger says, "I know none of that name lady." Montanto is a fencing term for an upward thrust. Even now at these early stages of the play we can see that Benedick is not in Beatrice's good books.
Benedick. "Lady Disdain" is Beatrice. She, with her sharp mind and quick tongue, replies, "Is it possible that disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signor Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain if you come in her presence." So begins a short argument full of quips and scorns at each other, only ending in Benedick's jade's trick.
| About whom is this said, "Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little
for a great praise: only this commendation I can
afford her, that were she other than she is, she
were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I
do not like her."? | "Much Ado About Nothing" Quotes
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Hero. On returning from the wars, Claudio falls in love with Hero, Leonato's short daughter. He gets his friend Benedick and asks his opinion of her. Benedick is outraged that his friend has fallen in love and so says this.
Benedick. Benedick has just announced, "I will live a bachelor" to Don Pedro and Claudio. He lives to regret these words and we hear him mention them later on. He goes on to say, "With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord, not with love."
| Which less-than-friendly character says, "I cannot hide
what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile
at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait
for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and
tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and
claw no man in his humour"?
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Don John. Don John is the illegitimate half brother of Don Pedro. He is talking with one of his intimate associates, Conrad. Conrad is asking why he makes such an obvious show of being evil.
Hero. The revelers, or Don Pedro's friends, have come in masked and one has just asked Hero, "Lady, will you walk about with your friend?" It is Don Pedro who has promised Claudio to woo Hero on his account. Don John, always on the look out for opportunities to creat mayhem, hearing of this, tells Claudio that the prince woos for himself. However this is soon put to rights by the prince, Leonato, Beatrice and most importantly, Hero.
| Who says, "Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave
him use for it, a double heart for his single one:
marry, once before he won it of me with false dice,
therefore your grace may well say I have lost it"?
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Beatrice. Beatrice insulted Benedick, not knowing he was himself as he was masked. Benedick told of it to Don Pedro who then tells Beatrice that she has lost the heart of Signior Benedick. Her response shows that they were once in love before.
| Who says, "No, nor I neither; but most wonderful that she
should so dote on Signor Benedick, whom she hath in
all outward behaviors seemed ever to abhor"? | "Much Ado About Nothing" Quotes
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Leonato. Don Pedro has decided to take upon him "one of Hercules's labours, that is to bring Signor Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection, th' one with th' other." This is to pass the time until the wedding of Claudio and Hero. Claudio, Hero, Leonato, Antonio, Margaret and Ursula have all agreed to help.
| Which rather unintelligent character says,
"Marry, sir, they have committed false report;
moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily,
they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have
belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust
things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves."?
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Dogberry. The prince has asked what Borachio and Conrad are accused of, which is slandering Hero. Unable to understand Dogberry, Don Pedro replies,
"First, I ask thee what they have done; thirdly, I
ask thee what's their offence; sixth and lastly, why
they are committed; and, to conclude, what you lay
to their charge."
Throughout the play, Dogberry is constantly misusing words. Earlier he tells Leonato that if he were as tedious as a king he would bestow all his tediousness on Leonato. In this case he is mistaking tedious for rich.
Messina. This is mentioned in the very first line of the play, when Leonato states "I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina." Another Shakespeare comedy, "The Taming of the Shrew", splits its time between Padua and Verona.
She's too short for a tall praise. During his conversation with Claudio, Benedick does make mention of Hero's being short, but he never says she's "too short for a tall praise."
| Complete the quote: in Act II, Scene 1, Leonato says to Beatrice, "Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly." Beatrice replies, "I have a good eye, uncle. I can see ____"? | Shakespeare's ' Much Ado About Nothing'
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A church by daylight. Beatrice is a confirmed bachelorette, and makes many speeches telling how there is no man good enough to marry her.
Balthazar. Balthazar sings "Hey nonny nonny!" to Don Pedro, Claudio and Leonato in Act III, Scene 3.
A beard. Since she won't accept a man who has a beard, nor one who has none, she's pretty much taken herself out of the running for a husband!
Blonde hair. Actually, he says that "her hair shall be of what color it please God." Although with his list (rich, wise, virtuous, noble, a good conversationalist, an excellent musician), he may be narrowing the field a bit too much!
She didn't. It was Margaret.. Don John plants Borachio at Hero's window, and he woos Margaret, but calls Margaret "Hero" the whole time, thereby fooling Claudio into thinking that Hero is unfaithful.
A rotten orange. He says to Leonato "There Leonato. Take her back again. Give not this rotten orange to your friend." He has seen what he thought was Hero in a passionate embrace with another man on the night before their wedding.
He threatens to kill her. Leonato's anger is aimed squarely at Hero, his loving daughter, rather than at these noblemen who swear that they saw her making love to a "ruffian" at her chamber window. He later changes his mind, telling his brother, "I know in my soul Hero is belied."
Marry the daughter of his brother. The final setup! Leonato offers his brother's "daughter" to Claudio, after Claudio discovers that Hero has "died". The next morning, Leonato makes good on his promise, but his brother presents Hero, alive and well, making for a happy ending to the Claudio/Hero story.
Benedick. Benedick, who has long fought a merry verbal war with Beatrice, responds to her first jab at him upon his arrival at Leonato's house.
Claudio. Claudio, enamored of the lovely Hero and wanting to make her his wife, asks this rhetorically of Benedick. Benedick's jaded response is, "Yea, and a case to put it into."
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