1. How many words are in the script? What is the setting of the play?
Much Ado About Nothing
Brandon McMonkey
Mrs. Nelson
9th Grade Lit.
10/16/08
What is the play about?
Who are the characters?
When was it written?
How many words are in the script?
What is the setting of the play?

2. Who are the characters in the play?
The characters are Claudio, Hero, Benedick, and Beatrice. Claudio and Benedick are two young Lords that fall in love with Leonato’s daughter and niece. Lenato’s daughter is Hero, and his niece is Beatrice (“Much Ado About Nothing”).

3. What is the play about?
The play is about two lords that fall in love with two women. Claudio and Hero and Benedick and Beatrice. At first the relationship is frost but over time it works out. When Claudio and Hero are to be wed, Don John (a villainous don) plans to ruin their wedding by getting his associate Boraicho to woo Hero. Instead Boraicho woos Hero’s maid, but Claudio does not know this so he denounces Hero on the day of the wedding. Hero faints and gives the impression that she has died. Due to that, Beatrice gets upset and tells Benedick to duel Claudio for revenge. Soon Don John’s plan is exposed by two foolish village constables. In return for Hero’s death, Leonato requests that Claudio marry a cousin of Hero’s. On the wedding day, the woman comes out in a veil and once reviled Claudio sees that it is Hero alive and well. The story ends in a glorious dance (“Much Ado About Nothing Play By Shakespeare”).

4. When was the play first written?
“The play was first written and staged in 1599(“Much Ado About Nothing Play By Shakespeare”).

5. What is the setting of the play?
“The setting of the play is the City of Messina in Sicily”(“Much Ado About Nothing Play By Shakespeare”).

6. How many words are in the script?
“There are 22,608 words in the script” (“Much Ado About Nothing Play By Shakespeare”).

7. Work Cited "Much Ado about Nothing." 2008. World Book Online.13 Oct.
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