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  1. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › muchadoMuch Ado About Nothing Act 5: Scenes 3 & 4 - SparkNotes

    Analysis: Act 5: Scenes 3 & 4. This final scene brings the play to a joyous conclusion, drawing it away from the tragedy toward which it had begun to move and letting everyone wind up safe and sound. Claudio and Hero are about to be happily married, as are Benedick and Beatrice. The deception has been revealed, and Don John has been caught and ...

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  2. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › muchadoMuch Ado About Nothing Act 4: Scenes 1 & 2 - SparkNotes

    Summary: Act 4: Scene 1. Everyone gathers inside the church to celebrate the wedding of Claudio and Hero. But when Friar Francis asks Claudio whether he wishes to marry Hero, Claudio breaks into an outraged speech. He tells Leonato that he sends Hero back to Leonato again, for though she seems outwardly pure and blushes with innocence, her ...

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    Summary. Analysis. Claudio is about to be married to Hero in the church. When asked by the Friar if anyone has any objections, he stops the proceedings. Dramatically, he gives Hero back to her father Leonato, claiming he has been tricked by her deceptive, maidenly appearances. He compares her to animals “that rage in savage sensuality,” (4. ...

  5. www.litcharts.com › shakescleare › shakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing Act 4, Scene 1 Translation ... - LitCharts

    But manliness and bravery have been melted into curtsies and compliments, and all men have become nothing but tongues, fancy tongues. The man who tells a lie and swears that it's true is now considered as brave as Hercules. I can't become a man by wishing, so I'll die as a woman, from grieving. BENEDICK.

  6. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › muchadoMuch Ado About Nothing Act 5: Scenes 1 & 2 - SparkNotes

    Analysis: Act 5: Scenes 1 & 2. By showing Leonato’s grief and anger to the audience, Shakespeare drives home the intensity of the pain and distress that Claudio’s accusation against Hero has caused Hero and her family. Although Hero is not really dead, Leonato grieves as if she were, because she has lost her reputation.

  7. www.gradesaver.com › much-ado-about-nothing › studyMuch Ado About Nothing Act 5 Summary and Analysis - GradeSaver

    Act Five, Scene Three. Claudio, Don Pedro and several other men visit Hero's gravesite and perform a short memorial service. Claudio has written an epitaph for Hero, after which he sings a song and then promises to perform the same ritual every year. Don Pedro bids the other men good night and takes Claudio with him to Leonato's house.

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  9. www.gradesaver.com › much-ado-about-nothing › studyMuch Ado About Nothing Summary and Analysis of Act 4

    Act Four, Scene One. The people are all gathered in the church to witness the wedding between Hero and Claudio. Leonato tells Friar Francis to hurry up. The Friar asks Claudio if he has come to marry Hero, to which Claudio replies, "No" (4.1.6). Leonato ignore the answer by playing with words to give it a different meaning, but Claudio ...