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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 ...
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He also tells Claudio that Antonio has a daughter who is very much like Hero, and he asks Claudio to marry his niece in Hero’s place in order to make up for the lost Hero. 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.
After Claudio realizes he was duped, he comes to Leonato begging for forgiveness. Leonato asks Claudio to preserve Hero’s reputation by telling everyone in town that she was innocent, and to write an epitaph to read at her grave. He then suggests Claudio marry his niece, Antonio’s daughter, who purportedly looks very much like Hero.
Their relationship is mostly restored when Leonato reveals his innocent daughter as a prize for Claudio to marry now he is properly worthy of her. ‘She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.’ (Leonato, 5:4)‘One Hero died defiled, but I do live, / And surely as I live, I am a maid.’ (Hero, 5:4)
Jul 31, 2015 · The next morning, he is to marry Leonato’s “niece.” Act 5, scene 2 Benedick tells Beatrice that he has challenged Claudio. They are summoned to Leonato’s house with the news that Hero’s innocence has been proved. Act 5, scene 3 Claudio appears at Leonato’s family tomb, has a song sung for Hero, and hangs a scroll on the tomb.
Leonato is the Duke of Messina, Hero's father and Beatrice's uncle. At the start of the play he welcomes the soldiers to his home. At the wedding when Hero is accused by Claudio, Leonato's focus ...
Claudio is stunned by the revelation and experiences grief, remorse, shame and love. Leonato returns and Borachio repeats his confession but insists on Margaret’s innocence. At Leonato’s request, Claudio promises to proclaim Hero’s innocence, hang an epitaph on her tomb and marry his ‘niece’ the following day. 8.
