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- When Benedick hears Claudio, Leonato, and Don Pedro approaching, he hides in the arbor to eavesdrop/note what they say.
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[6] [25] [26] The title can also be understood as Much Ado About Noting: much of the action centres on interest in others and critique of others, written messages, spying, and eavesdropping. This attention is mentioned several times directly, particularly concerning 'seeming', 'fashion', and outward impressions.
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Jul 31, 2015 · Act 3, scene 1. ⌜ Scene 1 ⌝. Synopsis: 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.
Overhearing, plotting, and misunderstanding occur frequently in Much Ado About Nothing, as characters constantly eavesdrop or spy on other characters. Occasionally they learn the truth, but more often they misunderstand what they see or hear, or they are tricked into believing what other people want them to believe.
Analysis. This scene is the first of two contrived overhearing/noting scenes in Don Pedro's plan to bring Beatrice and Benedick together. Benedick does not perceive that they have set him up; instead, he eavesdrops/notes the contrived conversation about Beatrice and her love for him and believes it all.
At the centre of Much Ado about Nothing are two couples: Beatrice and Benedick and their friends, Hero and Claudio. The play takes place in Messina on the Italian island of Sicily. Don Pedro has defeated his evil brother Don John in battle, but has allowed him to live and has pardoned him.
BEATRICE enters, behind them. 25 Now begin, For look where Beatrice like a lapwing runs Close by the ground, to hear our conference. Let's begin, because Beatrice is running here now like a little bird—keeping close to the ground—to come eavesdrop on our discussion. URSULA.
There is deception in Don John, which Pedro and his companions fail to notice. Friar and Hero step into deception when he makes her pretend that she is dead. Thus, the key to play is to ‘note’ as evident from its title Much Ado about Nothing (noting, observation, eavesdropping).
