Much Ado About Nothing

• Act 3 Scene 4 


  Hero ''my heart is exceedingly heavy''
• Margret states that Hero's happiness with decline

  ''due to the weight of a man''
• Dogberry and Verges act as a comedic relief
• Dogberry speaks in malapropisms
• Dogberry and Verges make blunderous statements
• Dogberry and Verges may have been used to critise the bureaucratic institutions
• Dogberry and Verges amplify bumbling incompetence
• The play is set in Messina, Sicily
• Shakespeare uses Messina to highlight the importance of trade and commerce
• Beatrice Act 5 Scene 4


  ''Why no, no more than reason''
• Claudio Act 5 Scene 1


  ''Now thy image doth appear in the rare semblance that I loved it first''
• Act Three Scene One - Hero


  ''like a lapwing''
• Beatrice - Act 1 Scene 1 


  ''hang up (Claudio) like a disease
• Benedick act 2 scene 3


  ''I will not be sworn but love may transform me into an oyster''
• Act 1 Scene 3 - Don John 


  ''I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in a bush and it better fit my blood''