MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (William Shakespeare)

Much Ado about nothing is a very popular love comedy of William Shakespeare. It´s happened in Messina, a town on the Mediterranean island of Sicily about hundred years ago. When the play begins, Don Pedro, the Spanish prince, and his friend are coming to Messina at the hause of Leonato, lord of Messina, because the war has finished.

The play is written in five acts with two or three scenes and is very important know the characters in order to understand the plot of the story.

The characters are:

• Leonato: lord of Messina

• Hero: Leonato´s daughter

• Beatriz: Hero´s cousin

• Margaret and Ursula: hero´s servants

• Don Pedro: Prince of Aragon

• Benedick: a young gentleman and friend of Don Pedro´s

• Claudio: a young gentleman and friend of Don Pedro´s

• Don Jhon: Don Pedro´s brother

• Borachio and Conrade: Don Jhon´s servants

• Father Francis: a Priest

• Dogberry: the head of the police

• Verges: a policeman

Much ado about nothing is a play in which the writer tells the story with dialogues between the characters.

The story tells two love histories between Hero and Claudio, and Beatrice and Benedice. One of the characters, Don Jhon try to break these loves, but at the end ,the love succeed and the couples will get married and will be happy for the end of the days.

Rafael Domínguez González