Leonato demands that Claudio mourns Hero, and in recompense marries his brother’s daughter-who happens to look exactly like Hero. Dogberry and Verges bring Borachio and Conrade to confess before Claudio and Pedro, and Claudio begs forgiveness. Leonato and Antonio offer to fight with Claudio, then learn the truth from the Watch. Beatrice and Benedick declare their feelings for each other, and Beatrice makes Benedick vow to kill Claudio for shaming Hero. The priest supports her, and suggests they pretend she has died until the truth is discovered. Leonato harangues Hero, while she protests her innocence. There, Claudio and Pedro reveal the ‘truth’ about Hero. Dogberry and Verges begin an interrogation, but the time of the wedding arrives before they can reach any conclusions. Borachio is overheard telling Conrade about the plot, and they are arrested. The Watch, led by Dogberry and Verges, prepare to carry out their evening duties. They see Borachio calling Margaret ‘Hero’, and are taken in. He informs Pedro and Claudio that Hero is going to be unfaithful that night, and arranges with them to be present. Meanwhile, Don John arranges for Borachio to woo Hero’s maid, Margaret, at Hero’s window. Both Benedick and Beatrice find they have feelings for each other, and appear love-struck to their friends. Later, Hero and Maria let Beatrice overhear their talk about how much Benedick loves her. Leonato, Claudio and Don Pedro let Benedick overhear them speak of how much Beatrice loves him.
Further antagonism between Beatrice and Benedick leads Pedro and the others to trick them into falling in love with each other. Don John, Pedro’s bastard brother, plots with his two men, Borachio and Conrade to do some wickedness.Īt the party, Claudio is told by Don John that Pedro is wooing for himself, but Claudio soon learns that this is not so, and that Hero is his.
Don Pedro agrees to woo Hero for Claudio, at a reception that evening. Claudio falls in love with Hero, Leonato’s daughter. Both solemnly declare they will never marry. Benedick continues a prickly relationship with Leonato’s niece, Beatrice. Don Pedro and his men return after a war to stay at Leonato’s house.
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