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23 CHAPTERS

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Much Ado About Nothing

ShakespearewroteMuch Ado About Nothingtowards the middle of his career, sometime between 1598 and 1599. It was first published in quarto in 1600 and later collected intoMr.William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragediesin 1623. The earliest recorded performance ofMuch Ado About Nothingwas performed for the newly married Princess Elizabeth and Frederick the Fifth, Elector Palatine in 1613. Shakespeare’s sources of inspiration for this play can be found in Italian culture and popular texts...

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CHAPTERS

23

Dramatis Personae

Don Pedro, Prince of Arragon Don John, his bastard brother Claudio, a young lord of Florence Benedick, a young lord of Padua Leonato, governor of Messina Antonio, his brother Balthasar, attendant to D...

Act 1

Before Leonato’s House. Leonato: Enter Leonato, Hero, and Beatrice, with a Messenger. Leonato: I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina. Messenger: He is very near ...

Scene 1 1

Before Leonato’s House. Leonato: Enter Leonato, Hero, and Beatrice, with a Messenger. Leonato: I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina. Messenger: He is very near ...

Scene 1 2

A room in Leonato’s house. Leonato: Enter Leonato and Antonio, meeting. Leonato: How now, brother? Where is my cousin, your son? hath he provided this music? Antonio: He is very busy about it. But, br...

Scene 1 3

The same. Don John: Enter Don John and Conrade. Conrade: What the good-year, my lord! why are you thus out of measure sad? Don John: There is no measure in the occasion that breeds; therefore the sadn...

Act 2

A hall in Leonato’s house. Leonato: Enter Leonato, Antonio, Hero, Beatrice, and others. Leonato: Was not Count John here at supper? Antonio: I saw him not. Beatrice: How tartly that gentleman looks! I...

Scene 2 1

A hall in Leonato’s house. Leonato: Enter Leonato, Antonio, Hero, Beatrice, and others. Leonato: Was not Count John here at supper? Antonio: I saw him not. Beatrice: How tartly that gentleman looks! I...

Scene 2 2

The same. Don John: Enter Don John and Borachio. Don John: It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the daughter of Leonato. Borachio: Yea, my lord; but I can cross it. Don John: Any bar, any cross, an...

Scene 2 3

Leonato’s orchard. Benedick: Enter Benedick. Benedick: Boy! Boy: Enter Boy. Boy: Signior? Benedick: In my chamber-window lies a book: bring it hither to me in the orchard. Boy: I am here already, sir....

Act 3

Leonato’s garden. Hero: Enter Hero, Margaret, and Ursula. Hero: Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour; There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice Proposing with the prince and Claudio: Whisper her ear ...

Scene 3 1

Leonato’s garden. Hero: Enter Hero, Margaret, and Ursula. Hero: Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour; There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice Proposing with the prince and Claudio: Whisper her ear ...

Scene 3 2

A room in Leonato’s house. Don Pedro: Enter Don Pedro, Claudio, Benedick, and Leonato. Don Pedro: I do but stay till your marriage be consummate, and then go I toward Arragon. Claudio: I’ll bring you ...

Scene 3 3

A street. Dogberry: Enter Dogberry and Verges with the Watch. Dogberry: Are you good men and true? Verges: Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer salvation, body and soul. Dogberry: Nay, tha...

Scene 3 4

Hero’s apartment. Hero: Enter Hero, Margaret, and Ursula. Hero: Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire her to rise. Ursula: I will, lady. Hero: And bid her come hither. Ursula: Well. Exit. M...

Scene 3 5

Another room in Leonato’s house. Leonato: Enter Leonato, with Dogberry and Verges. Leonato: What would you with me, honest neighbour? Dogberry: Marry, sir, I would have some confidence with you that d...

Act 4

A church. Don Pedro: Enter Don Pedro, Don John, Leonato, Friar Francis, Claudio, Benedick, Hero, Beatrice, and attendants. Leonato: Come, Friar Francis, be brief; only to the plain form of marriage, a...

Scene 4 1

A church. Don Pedro: Enter Don Pedro, Don John, Leonato, Friar Francis, Claudio, Benedick, Hero, Beatrice, and attendants. Leonato: Come, Friar Francis, be brief; only to the plain form of marriage, a...

Scene 4 2

A prison. Dogberry: Enter Dogberry, Verges, and Sexton, in gowns; and the Watch, with Conrade and Borachio. Dogberry: Is our whole dissembly appeared? Verges: O, a stool and a cushion for the sexton. ...

Act 5

Before Leonato’s house. Leonato: Enter Leonato and Antonio. Antonio: If you go on thus, you will kill yourself; And ’tis not wisdom thus to second grief Against yourself. Leonato: I pray thee, cease t...

Scene 5 1

Before Leonato’s house. Leonato: Enter Leonato and Antonio. Antonio: If you go on thus, you will kill yourself; And ’tis not wisdom thus to second grief Against yourself. Leonato: I pray thee, cease t...

Scene 5 2

Leonato’s garden. Benedick: Enter Benedick and Margaret, meeting. Benedick: Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well at my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice. Margaret: Will you the...

Scene 5 3

A church. Don Pedro: Enter Don Pedro, Claudio, and three or four with tapers. Claudio: Is this the monument of Leonato? A Lord: It is, my lord. Claudio: Reading out of a scroll. Done to death by sland...

Scene 5 4

A room in Leonato’s house. Leonato: Enter Leonato, Antonio, Benedick, Beatrice, Margaret, Ursula, Friar Francis, and Hero. Friar: Did I not tell you she was innocent? Leonato: So are the prince and Cl...