Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado about Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare. It is set in Messina, Sicily (which is in Italy) and is a comedy/love story about two pairs of lovers, Hero and Claudio and Benedick and Beatrice. This story is one of William Shakespeare's more popular plays.
The villain in this story is called Don John and he convinces Claudio that Hero is cheating on him and then he refuses to marry her whilst Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confessing their true love for each other. In the end the Constable accidentally sorts everything out and everyone celebrates both marriages.
Don John (the villain) can't bear anyone else to be happy. He is an illegitimate child meaning his upbringing has been rocky and he is insecure, leading to his selfish behaviour getting the better of him throughout the play.
Much Ado About Nothing Media
A painting of Beatrice by Frank Dicksee, from The Graphic Gallery of Shakespeare's Heroines
Swooning of Hero in the Church scene by Alfred Elmore
"Much Ado About Nothing", Act IV, Scene 2, the Examination of Conrade and Borachio (from the Boydell series), Robert Smirke (n.d.)
Hero, John William Wright (c. 1849)
Drawing of Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Benedick and Winifred Emery as Beatrice in a 1905 production. Act II, Scene v: "Kill Claudio".
Beatrice, Hero and Ursula, John Jones, after Henry Fuseli (c. 1771)
A watercolor by John Sutcliffe: Beatrice overhears Hero and Ursula.
David Garrick as Benedick, by Jean-Louis Fesch, 1770
John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton in the 1959 Broadway production of Much Ado About Nothing
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