Much Ado About Nothing Flashcards by Louis L

Beatrice talks of Benedick to the messenger who brings news of Don Pedro’s approach

a good soldier to a lady, but what is he to a lord

- merry war…skirmish of wit

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Leonato talks jokingly of Hero’s parentage(1)

her mother hath many times told me so

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Beatrice and Benedick verbally spar

I would my horse had the speed of your tongue

- You always end with a jade’s trick

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Leonato welcomes Don John(1)

being reconciled to the prince your brother: I owe you al duty

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Claudio declares his love for Heor to Benedick

would you buy her, that you enquire after her? Can the world buy such a jewel?
Yea, and a case to put it in

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Don Pedro chastises Benedick for his obstinate bacherlorhood

But that I will…hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke

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Don Pedro suggests to Claudio that he woo Hero on his behalf as well as approach Leonato

But lest my liking might too sudden seem, I would have salved it with a longer treatise
what needs the bridge much broader than the flood?

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Leonato dismisses Antonio’s( inaccurate) report of Don Pedro’s conversation with Claudio(1)

we will hold it as a dream till it appear itself

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Don John responds to Conrad’s advice that he seek to flatter Don Pedro(3)

I had rather be a canker in a hedge, than a rose in his grace
I am trusted with a muzzle
I am a plain dealing villain

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Don John responds to Borachio’s(inaccurate) report of Don Pedro’s conversation with Claudio

That young startup hath all the glory of my overthrow

- If I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way.

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Leonato, Antonio, Hero and Beatrice discuss Don John’s demonstrable melancholy

Pg27 the one is too like an image and says nothing, and the other too like my lady’s eldest son, evermore tattling
pg27How tartly that gentleman looks, I never can see him but I am heat-burned an hour after

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Leonato and Antonio admonish Beatrice for being too bad-tempered to marry

2-1 By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shred of thy tongue

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Beatrice declares she does not ever want a husband and if she had him, she would cuckold him

Pg27 God sends a curst cow short horns, but to a cow too curst, he sends none
Pg27 he that hath a beard is more than a youth: and he that hath no beard is less than a man

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Beatrice compares romance to a series of three dances, Leonato agrees with her view

Beatrice compares romance to a series of three dances, Leonato agrees with her view
2-5 the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig
2-5 the wedding mannerly modest (as a measure) full of state and ancestry
2-5 then comes Repentance, and with his bad legs falls into the cinquepace faster and faster

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Hero is surprisingly witty at the ball

Pg31 and when please you to say so? When I like your favour, for God defend the lute should be like the case

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Some characters are fooled by the masks at the masked ball, while others are not

Pg31 I know you well enough, you are Signor Antonio

Pg33 He is the prince’s jester, a very dull fool, only his gift id in devising impossible=le slanders

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Don John does not dissemble and tells Claudio what he thinks is the truth about Don Pedro

Pg33 I pray you dissuade him from her, she is no equal for his birth
Pg33 I heard him swear his affection

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Claudio responds to the (false) revelation that Don Pedro intends to marry Hero himself

2-8 Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affars of love
2-8 trust no agent: for beauty is a witch

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Hero and Claudio become engaged

Pg39 I have wooed in thy name, and fair Hero is won

Pg40 dote upon the exchange

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Don Pedro, on marking how Beatrice avoids any talk of a husband, would be a good match for Benedick

2-27 Stalk on, stalk on, the fowl sits
Pg43 I will in the interim undertake one of Hercules’ labours, to bring Signor Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection

Borachio shares a plan with Don John to undo Claudio’s engagement (4)

Pg46 he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned Claudio, whose estimation do you mightily hold up, to a contaminated stale
Pg47 intend a kind of zeal
2-13 the semblance of a maid
Pg47 there shall appear such seeming truth of Hero’s disloyalty, and there shall be called assurance

Benedick’s soliloquy about Claudio’s engagement

2-15 fool…laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn
2-17 drum and the fife…tabor and the pipe

Balthasar’s song

2-25 One foot in sea, and one on shore, to one thing constant never
Pg53 then sigh not so, but let them go

Claudio, Don Pedro and Leonato recounts Beatrice’s supposed passion for Benedick to trick Benedick

Pg57 she falls, weeos, sobs, beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses
Pg58 proper man…good outward happiness…very wise…valiant
pg58I could wish he would modestly examine himseflf, to see how much he is unworthy so good a lady

Hero and Ursula plot to trick Benedick

3-1 honeysuckles ripened by the sun, forbid the sun to enter...adavance their pride against the power that bred it 3-2 the p,easant’st angling is to see the fish cut with her golden oars the silver stream, and greedily devour the treacherous bait

Hero and Ursula recount Benedick’s supposed love for Beatrice to trick Beatrice

Pg 69 So odd and from all fashions as Beatrice is cannot be commendable Pg69 She cannot be so much without true judgement, having so swift and excellent a wit, as she is prized to have, as to refuse so rare a gentleman as Signor Benedick

Beatrice is convinced of Benedick’s love(1)

Pg71 Contempt farewell; and maiden pride, adieu. No glory lives behind the back of such

Benedick is apprently in love

3-10 the ornament of his cheeks hath already stuffed tennis balls...rubs himself with civet 3-12 two bears will not bite one another when they meet

Claudio responds to Don John’s claim of Hero’s infidelity

3-14 for my brother...hath holp to effect your ensuing marriage: sirely suit ill-spent, and labour ill-bestowed Pg77 If I see anyting tonight, why I should not marry her tomorrow in the congregation... there will I shame her

Claudio rejects and shames Hero

4-1 Oh what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do! 4-3 Give not this rotten orange to your friend, she’s but the sign and semblance of her honour

Hero is isolated and beset by other male chracters

4-6 Oh God defned me, how am I beset! What kind of catechising call you this 4-8 To make your answer truly to your name

Don Pedro worries about how Hero’s infiedlity would affect his friendship (1)

4-5 I stand dishonoured that have gone about to link my friend to a common stale

Leonato worries how Hero’s infidelity will affect his reputation

4-13 Death is the fairest cover for her shame | 4-16 She is fallen into a pit of ink, that the wide sea hath drops too feq to wash her clean

Leonato becomes fully convinced of Hero’s infidelity (1)

4-21 stronger made which was before barred up with ribs of iron

Leonato and Antonio confronts Claudio and Don Pedro with news of Hero’s death, each challenge Claudioy

5-7/5-9 challenge thee to trails of a man...despite his nice fence, and his active practice, His May of youth, and blossom of lustihood 5-11 Sir Boy, I’ll whip you from your foining fene

Claudio and Don Pedro respond to Benedick’s challenge

5-24 When shall we set the savage bull’s horns on the sensible Benedick’s head? 5-30 What a pretty thing man is, when he goes in his doublet and hoes, and leaves off his wit!

Claudio and Don Pedro react to Borachio’s confession(3)

5-33 what your wisdoms could not discover, these shallow fools have brought to light 5-34 Runs not this speech like iron through your blood 5-35 I have drunk poison whiles he uttered it

By way of recompense, Leonato suggests that Claudio marry Antonio’s daughter in Hero’s place (a ruse)

5-41 Impose me to what penance your invention can lay upon my sin, yet sinned I not, but in mistaking. 5-42/5-43 My brother hath a daughter, almost the copy of my child’s that’s dead, and she alone is heir to both of us

Leonato reveals the conspiracy to bring together Beatrice and Benedick to Benedick

5-48 Your niece regards me with an eye of favour. That eye my daughter lent her, ‘tis most tru. And I do with an eye of love requite her. The sight whereof I think you had from me

Hero reveals herself to Claudio (who thinks she is Antonio’s daughter)

Pg159 One Hero dies defiled, but I do live, and surely as I live, I am a maid

Benedick notes Don Pedro’s sadness and suggests he get married

Prince, thou art sad, get thee a wife, get thee a wife. There is no stuff more reverend than one tipped with horns

A messenger enter with news that Don John has returned, but Benedick demands that the news be ignored tomorrow

Think not on him till tomorrow, I’ll devise thee brave punishments for him

Benedick’s second soliloquy about the possibility of marrying Beatrice:

2-30 the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot sure hide himself in such reverence Pg61 they say the lady is fair, ‘tis a truth, I can bear them witness: and virtuous, ‘tis so

The friar suggests that Hero pretends death

Pg113 When he shall hear she died upon his words th’ idea of her life shall sweetly creep into his study of imagination

After Beatrice and Benedick declare love for each other, Beatrice bids Benedick to kill Claudio

Pg117 You dare easier be friends with me, than fight with mine enemy Pg119 But manhood is melted into cutsies, valour into compliment

Leonatio begins to doubt the truth of the allegation after Benedick and the Frair speak to him

Pg111 if they speak but truth of her, these hands shall tear her 4-24 they shall find...strength of limb, and policy of mind, ability in means, and choice of friends to quit me of them thoroughly

Dogberry’s malapropism:

Pg79 you are thought here to be the most senseless men

Sexton accuse Dogberry as incompetent

Pg123 You go not the way to examine, you must call forth the watch that are their accusers