Unit 6: Much Ado About Nothing Act 3 NOTES

Task: For each scene, when you go back to reread and watch for homework, take notes about what the characters in the scene say and do. Then think about how it affects the other characters and the story.


IMPORTANT THINGS FROM ACT 1 & 2 to remember:
Act 1:
Act 2:
DRAMATIC IRONY:
ACT 3 Scene 1:
Scene Summary: Beatrice is lured into overhearing a staged conversation between Hero and Ursula, a waiting gentlewoman, who talk about Benedick’s desperate love for Beatrice and about Beatrice’s arrogance. Beatrice decides that she must return Benedick’s love.
Character
What they say
What they do
How it affects other characters and the story
HERO











MARGARET











URSULA











BEATRICE













ACT 3 SCENE 1: RECAP
What happens?
Who talks a lot?
Who doesn’t talk a lot?
Where do we see dramatic irony?
Other terms:























PRACTICE PARAPHRASE:
Directions: Choose a quote from Scene 1 and practice putting it in your own words:
QUOTE:
PARAPHRASE:












ACT 3 SCENE 2:
Scene Summary: Benedick appears with his beard shaved off and showing other signs of having fallen in love. When he exits with Leonato, Don John tells Don Pedro and Claudio that Hero is unfaithful and that he will show them a man entering her chamber window that very night, the night before the wedding.
Character
What they say
What they do
How it affects other characters and the story
PRINCE











CLAUDIO










BENEDICK











LEONATO










DON JOHN










ACT 3 SCENE 2: RECAP
What happens?
Who talks a lot?
Who doesn’t talk a lot?
Where do we see dramatic irony?
Other terms:






















PRACTICE PARAPHRASE:
Directions: Choose a quote from Scene 1 and practice putting it in your own words:
QUOTE:
PARAPHRASE:













ACT 3 SCENE 3:
Scene Summary: That night, Messina’s master constable, Dogberry, and his assistant, Verges, set the night watch, telling the watchmen to pay particular attention to any activity around Leonato’s house. Borachio enters, telling his companion, Conrade, about the charade that made Claudio and Don Pedro think that Hero had just allowed him to enter her chamber. Borachio and Conrade are arrested by the watch.
Character
What they say
What they do
How it affects other characters and the story
DOGBERRY









VERGES









1st Watchman






Seacoal
Leader of the watch






2nd Watchman






Borachio









Conrade










ACT 2 SCENE 3: RECAP
What happens?
Who talks a lot?
Who doesn’t talk a lot?
Where do we see dramatic irony?
Other terms:






















PRACTICE PARAPHRASE:
Directions: Choose a quote from Scene 1 and practice putting it in your own words:
QUOTE:
PARAPHRASE:














ACT 3 SCENE 4:
Scene Summary: Early the next morning, Hero prepares for the wedding. Beatrice enters, suffering, she says, from a bad cold, but Hero and Margaret tease her about being in love with Benedick.
Character
What they say
What they do
How it affects other characters and the story
HERO












URSULA












MARGARET












BEATRICE












ACT 3 SCENE 4: RECAP
What happens?
Who talks a lot?
Who doesn’t talk a lot?
Where do we see dramatic irony?
Other terms:






















PRACTICE PARAPHRASE:
Directions: Choose a quote from Scene 1 and practice putting it in your own words:
QUOTE:
PARAPHRASE:














ACT 3 SCENE 5:
Scene Summary: Dogberry and Verges try to tell Leonato about the arrest of Borachio and Conrade, but they are so unintelligible that Leonato impatiently dismisses them, telling them to examine the prisoners. He leaves the wedding.
Character
What they say
What they do
How it affects other characters and the story
LEONATO











DOGBERRY











VERGES











Messenger













ACT 3 SCENE 5: RECAP
What happens?
Who talks a lot?
Who doesn’t talk a lot?
Where do we see dramatic irony?
Other terms:





















PRACTICE PARAPHRASE:
Directions: Choose a quote from Scene 1 and practice putting it in your own words:
QUOTE:
PARAPHRASE: