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Claudio, weeping at Leonato’s generosity, accepts these terms. Leonato orders that Borachio be carted away for further interrogation. Read a translation of Act 5: Scene 1. Summary: Act 5: Scene 2. Meanwhile, near Leonato’s estate, Benedick asks Margaret to bring Beatrice to speak to him. Alone, he laments his inability to write poetry.
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Summary: Act 5: Scene 4. Meanwhile, in the church, Leonato, Antonio, Beatrice, Benedick, Hero, Margaret, Ursula, and the friar prepare for the second wedding of Claudio and Hero. We learn from their conversation that Margaret has been interrogated, and that she is innocent of conspiring with Borachio and Don John—she never realized that she ...
What happens between Leonato, Antonio, Claudio, and Don Pedro? Lenato accuses Claudio of being a liar and challenges him to a duel. Antonio's says he will challenge him first. Don Pedro tries to stop the fight by saying they were only telling the truth. How do Don Pedro and Claudio first react to Benedick's challenge?
Leonato orders them to sign an epitaph to Hero’s grave, and to marry Antonio’s daughter. Claudio agrees. Leonato wishes to confront Margaret over her part in the plot, but Borachio insists that she is innocent and did not know what he was up to. (237 lines) Enter Leonato and his brother Antonio.
Dogberry, Verges and the members of the watch arrive with Borachio and Conrade in their custody. Don Pedro is shocked to see two of his brother’s men arrested. Dogberry has Borachio confess his treachery, and Borachio brags that “I have deceived even your very eyes; what your wisdoms could not discover, these shallow fools have brought to light.” (5.1.231-233) Don Pedro and Claudio are ...
At Leonato’s “monument” or family grave, Claudio reads the poem he has written in honour of Hero. Then accompanied by Pedro he returns to prepare for his forthcoming wedding with Hero’s cousin. Act Five Scene Four. Leonato, awaiting Claudio’s arrival for the re-organised wedding, forgives him for Hero’s humiliation.
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The men that the two constables have caught, of course, are Conrad and Borachio—and Borachio is the one who has helped Don John deceive Claudio and Don Pedro the night before. But because Dogberry and Verges are such poor communicators, they are unable to convey to Leonato how important it is that he hear Borachio’s testimony;because they are so foolish, they do not seem to realize how ...
