Characters
This character tells Benedick "love on; I will requite thee."
Who is Beatrice?
This person is behind the plan to ruin Hero and Claudio's relationship.
Who is Don John?
The ease at which Claudio and the prince believe Don John's set up connects with this theme.
What is men's distrust of women/fear of betrayal by women?
This couple *seems* to be the perfect couple.
Who are Claudio and Hero?
This is the definition of a malapropism.
What is using the wrong word instead of the right one by mistake?
This character says the following when his daughter is accused of being unfaithful.
"Hath no man’s dagger here a point for me?"
Who is Leonato?
This person is behind the plan to get Beatrice and Benedick together.
Who is the prince(Don Pedro)?
These two characters upend social norms.
Who are Benedick and Beatrice?
This couple may unexpectedly be well suited for one another.
Who is Benedick and Beatrice?
Dogberry means to use this word instead of vigitant.
Adieu, be vigitant, I beseech you.
What is vigilant?
This character is tricked into falling in love first.
Who is Benedick?
Claudio waits until this event to accuse Hero of being unfaithful.
What is their wedding?
In the following quote, Hero says there are at least two ways of falling in love. This is the first way (by arrow).
"If it prove so, then loving goes by haps;
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."
What is normally?
Benedick wrongly interprets the following words as Beatrice feeling this way about him.
"I took no more pains for those thanks than
you take pains to thank me. If it had been painful, I
would not have come."
What is loving him?
In the following quote, Dogberry means to use this word instead of comprehend.
This is your charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men...
What is apprehend?
The following quote shows that this character is picky about finding a romantic partner.
One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that’s certain; wise, or I’ll none; virtuous, or I’ll never cheapen her; fair, or I’ll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what color it please God. Ha!
Who is Benedick?
Hero is referring to the potential success of this when she says "If it prove so, then loving goes by haps;
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."
What is the plan to get Benedick and Beatrice together?
In the following quote, Hero says there are at least two ways of falling in love. This is the second way (by traps).
"If it prove so, then loving goes by haps;
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."
What is being tricked?
He is in a relationship with Hero's gentlewoman.
Who is Borachio?
This character cannot understand Dogberry due to his malapropisms.
Who is Leonato?
Dogberry's second in command.
Who is Verges?
This person's unusual way of speaking stops things from being solved before Hero and Claudio's wedding.
Who is Dogberry?
Don John's villainy is due to him being this and Elizabethan attitudes towards them.
What is an illegitimate child?
This person calls their other half a "rotten orange."
Who is Claudio?
Dogberry's malapropisms are a sign of this.
What is his incompetence as a constable?