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Jul 31, 2015 · Read the full text of Shakespeare's comedy of love and wit, Much Ado About Nothing, in PDF format. Follow the courtship and scandal of Hero and Claudio, and the verbal duel of Benedick and Beatrice.
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Much Ado About Nothing: Entire Play. ACT I. SCENE I. Before LEONATO'S house. Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger. LEONATO. I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon comes this night to Messina. Messenger. He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off when I left him. LEONATO.
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The facsimile opposite represents the title- page qf the Elizabethan Club copy qf the only early quarto edition. Fifteen copies qf this edition are known to survive.
Don Pedro, Prince of Arragon Leonato, Governor of Messina Don Jo)hn, Bastard Brother to Don Pedro Claudio, a young Lord of Florence, Favourite to Don Pedro Benedick, a young Lord of Padua, favour’d likewise hy Don Pedro Antonio, Brother to Leonato Balthasar, Servant to Don Pedro Borachio, Confidant to Don John Conrade, Friend to Borachio Dogberry, ...
[.Before Antonio’s Orchard] Enter Leonato, Governor of Messina; Innogen, his wife; Hero, his daughter; and Beatrice, his niece; with a Messenger. Leon. I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina, Mess. He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off when I left him. 4 Leon. How many gentlemen have you lost in...
Scene Three \The Same] Enter Sir John the Bastard and Conrade, his companion. Con. What the good-year, my lord! why are you thus out of measure sad? D. John. There is no measure in the occasion that breeds; therefore the sadness is without limit. 5 Con. You should hear reason. D. John. And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it ? 8 Con. If n...
Bora. Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio, to undo Hero, and kill Leonato. Look you for any other issue? D.John. Only to despite them, I will en¬ deavour any thing. 32 Bora. Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the prince ...
[Leonato’s Orchard] Enter Benedick, alone. Bene. Boy! [Enter Boy.] Boy. Signior? Bene. In my chamber-window lies a book; bring it hither to me in the orchard. 4 Boy. I am here already, sir. Bene. I know that; but I would have thee hence, and here again. [Exit Boy^\ I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicat...
D. Pedro. [Aside.] Let there be the same net spread for her; and that must your daughter and her gentlewoman carry. The sport will be, when they hold one an opinion of another’s dotage, and no such matter: that’s the scene that I would see, which will be merely a dumb- show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner. 238: Exeunt [all but BeneditKj. ...
Scene One [Within a Church] Enter Prince, Bastard, Leonato, Friar [Fran¬ cis^, Claudio, Benedick, Hero, and Bea¬ trice.
Scene One [.Before Leonato’s House.'] Exeunt. Enter Leonato and his brother [Antonio]. Ant. If you go on thus, you will kill yourself; And ’tis not wisdom thus to second grief Against yourself.
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Much adoe about Nothing. 1 Actus primus, Scena prima. 2 Enter Leonato Gouernour of Messina, Innogen his wife, He- 3 ro his daughter, and Beatrice his Neece, with a messenger. 4 Leonato. 5 I Learne in this Letter, that Don Peter of Arra- 6 gon, comes this night to Messina. 7 Mess. He is very neere by this: he was not.
Read or listen to the full play by William Shakespeare, set in Messina and featuring the witty couple Beatrice and Benedick. The web page also provides an online critical edition and a link to watch the HD restored version.
