Delightful Devices
A theatrical freeze frame of a scene
tableaux
Fakes her death; gets married
Who is Hero
It must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain”
Don John
Town Villian (side kick)
Borachio
a remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the pla
aside
Challenges his Bestie to a duel in the name of love
Who is Benedick?
three
Beatrice?
Governor of Messina?
Who is Leonato?
soliloquy
Is mistaken as Hero as part of Don John's evil plan
Who is Margaret?
These three return victorious from battle at the plays opening
Don Pedro, Claudio, Benedick
"He is the prince's jester: a very dull fool; only his gift is in devising impossible slanders."
Who is Beatrice
Prince of Aaragon
Who is Don Pedro?
a 14-line poem, traditionally written in iambic pentameter, that follows a specific rhyme scheme.
A sonnet
Partakes in gossip with Hero about Beatrice in the Orchard
Who is Ursula?
"There, Leonato, take her back again: Give not this rotten orange to your friend; She's but the sign and semblance of her honour. Behold how like a maid she blushes here!"
Who is Claudio?
The Police Constable AND Deputy
Who is Dogberry and Vegrges?
Malapropism
Brags with Borachtio; gets thrown in jail
Who is Conrad?
This will be read each year at the anniversaty of Hero's death
What is an epitaph
Let her awhile be secretly kept in,
And publish it that she is dead indeed;
Maintain a mourning ostentation;
And on your family's old monument
Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites
That appertain unto a burial.
Friar Francis
Leonato's brother?
Who is Antonio?