Much Ado About Nothing Outline Essay, Research Paper

English Awards Nine

Period 6

August 24, 1999

Much Ado About Nothing

I. Act I

A. Scene 1

1. A courier comes to Leonato and tells him Don Pedro is coming

2. Don Pedro defeated Don John & # 8217 ; s rebellion

3. Don Pedro arrives in Messina with 3 others

a. Don John-now reconciled with Don Pedro

b. Claudio

c. Benedict

4. All the work forces come to the governor of Messina

5. Beatrice and Benedict insult each other

6. Claudio tells Benedict how he feels about Hero

7. Don Pedro says he will court Hero for Claudio

B. Scene II

1. Leonato hears that Don Pedro is traveling woo Hero for himself ( which is non true )

2. Leonato tells Hero what is traveling to go on

C. Scene III

1. Don John is told be Conrade about the trade that Don Pedro and Claudio have made

2. Don John and his associates decide to queer the program to acquire back Claudio and Don Pedro.

II. Act II

A. Scene I

1. Beatrice describes her perfect hubby and her uncle is amazed at how observant she is

2. Hero is guarded by her uncle Antonio so she won & # 8217 ; t be influenced by her male parent Leonato

3. All the work forces put on their masks

4. Antonio & # 8217 ; s dissemble fools no on and is commented on by Ursula

5. Beatrice is seemingly tricked by Benedicts mask and negotiations about him in a derogative manner

6. Benedict is evidently surprised at her address and remarks that he will state Benedict what she has said

7. Don John and Borachio, who are non have oning their masks, go to Claudio.

a. Don John and Borachio convince Claudio that they have been tricked by his mask into thought he is Benedict

B. They tell Claudio the Don Pedro is be aftering to get married Hero himself and that he lied to Claudio and he believes them

8. Benedict gags on how the Prince has Hero but Claudio believes him to be true

9. Don Pedro says that he wooed in Claudio & # 8217 ; s favor

10. Don Pedro speaks of Beatrice & # 8217 ; s words about Benedict

11. Beatrice appears and interrupts Don Pedro

12. Benedict insults Beatrice and makes a headlong issue

13. Don Pedro tells Claudio that Hero will get married him and leaves Claudio speechless

14. Beatrice speaks to Hero and Claudio with many witty comments and them issues

15. Don Pedro hatches a program to convey Beatrice and Benedict together in matrimony

B. Scene II

1. Don John plans to seek to interrupt up Claudio and Hero once more

2. Borachio has a program to interrupt up Claudio and Hero

a. Borachio plans to utilize Margaret to lead on Don John and Claudio into believing Hero is unfaithful

b. Borachio is promised a thousand ducats if the program works

C. Scene III

1. Benedict thinks about Claudio & # 8217 ; s approaching matrimony and remembers when Claudio would hold thought it hideous himself

2. Don Pedro and Leonato enter and Benedict fells

3. Balthasar is asked to sing a love vocal

4. Benedict is tricked into catching a conversation that is supposed to do him fall in love with Beatrice

a. The three work forces claim that Beatrice is frantically in love with Benedict

B. They leave Benedict wholly convinced that Beatrice is in love with him

5. To finish the artifice Beatrice is sent to name Benedict to dinner

6. Benedict thinks that everything she said was a avowal of love

III. Act III

A. Scene I

1. Margaret lures Beatrice into the grove

2. Beatrice overhears Hero and Ursula & # 8217 ; s staged transition

a. They speak of how much Benedict loves Beatrice and how he doesn & # 8217 ; t want to state anything because he is afraid of ridicule

3. Beatrice is convinced that Benedict is frantically in love with her and she claims she will volitionally take his manus

B. Scene II

1. Don John and Claudio gag with Benedict because they know he is in love

2. Don Pedro and Claudio maintain doing merriment of Benedict to acquire all the pleasance out of his silent agony

3. Benedict and Leonato pull aside

4. Don John comes and tells Don Pedro and Claudio that Hero is unpatriotic and that he can turn out this because she will hold an

other adult male in her Chamberss by the window subsequently on that dark

C. Scene III

1. Dogberry and Verges instruct the ticker to non make anything when they are met with opposition

2. The ticker so spies on Borachio and Conrade while Borachio outlines how he and Don John have deceived Don Pedro and Claudio

3. The ticker arrest both Conrade and Borachio

D. Scene IV

1. On Hero & # 8217 ; s nuptials twenty-four hours Margaret prepares her for the ceremonial

2. They start speaking about sex

3. Beatrice comes and attempts to go on with the conversation but grows tired of it

4. Ursula enters and tells them to travel to the church

E. Scene V

1. Dogberry and Verges tell Leonato of Conrade and Borachio & # 8217 ; s arrest

2. In his hastiness to fix for his girls marrying he ignores the apprehension

3. Leonato leaves for the nuptials

4. Dogberry and Verges leave for the gaol to interrogate their captives

IV. Act IV

A. Scene I

1. At the nuptials ceremonial Claudio denounces Hero

2. Leonato is at foremost bewildered so he excessively is convinced that she was unfaithful

3. Hero swoons and is taken for dead

4. The Friar believes that Hero is guiltless and he thinks that there is so disgusting scoundrels

5. The Friar besides says to allow it be known that Hero is dead when she truly is alive

6. Benedict is asked by Beatrice to dispute so kill Claudio

a. Both have to claim that Hero is dead

B. Scene II

1. During Borachio and Conrade & # 8217 ; s test before the Sexton the are charged guilty of raising uncertainty on Hero & # 8217 ; s name

2. They are ordered to Leonato & # 8217 ; s house

V. Act V

A. Scene I

1. Leonato is troubled by the dirt which has befallen his girls name and non even his brother can soothe him

2. When Claudio and Don Pedro enter it causes Leonato much choler

3. Antonio challenges the two of them

4. Claudio and Don Pedro once more province their accusals

5. The two older work forces withdraw

6. Benedict enters and challenges Claudio

7. As Benedict withdraws he promises to go forth their company

8. Dogberry, Verges, and the ticker bring Conrade and Borachio

9. Borachio openly confesses that what he did and that it is his mistake that Hero is dead

10. Don Pedro is shocked

11. As the Friar had said Claudio deeply regrets his actions

12. Leonato reenters and thanks Claudio and Don John for Hero & # 8217 ; s decease while wholly disregarding Borachio

13. Leonato orders Claudio to hang an epitaph on Hero & # 8217 ; s grave and sing to her that dark

14. Leonato so orders Claudio to get married Hero & # 8217 ; s purportedly indistinguishable cousin

15. Leonato so decides to grok Margaret but is stooped by Borachio who says she is guiltless

16. Dogberry leaves the captives to Leonato but non after stating him of being called & # 8220 ; an buttocks & # 8221 ;

B. Scene II

1. Benedict is holding a reasonably colourful conversation with Margaret before Beatrice enters

2. Benedict and Beatrice both now in love throw witty remarks at each other

3. Ursula interrupts them with the intelligence that Don John is the scoundrel who tarnished Hero & # 8217 ; s name

4. They all leave for Leonato & # 8217 ; s place

C. Scene III

1. Claudio and Don Pedro pay their respects to Hero at her supposed grave

2. Claudio reads the epitaph he wrote and sings in her award

3. Claudio vows to compensate his incorrect

D. Scene IV

1. Leonato tells all the adult females including his girl to go forth and return masked when they are summoned

2. Antonio will move as the male parent and give Claudio the masked Hero & # 8217 ; s manus

3. Benedict asks for Beatrice in matrimony and is granted by Antonio

4. Claudio and Don Pedro enter while doing merriment of Benedict

5. Antonio brings out two cloaked adult females

6. Claudio does non cognize that he is get marrieding hero until they are before the Friar

7. Beatrice is unmasked and she and Benedict figure out the program to convey them together but they do non mind the secret plan

8. Beatrice and Benedict buss and acquire engaged

9. News of Don John & # 8217 ; s apprehensiveness reaches all but Benedict decides to take attention of it the following twenty-four hours

10. Everybody starts dancing

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