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Hero

Beatrice

Benedick

Claudio

Don Pedro

Don John

Leonato

The beautiful young daughter of Leonato and the cousin of Beatrice. Hero is lovely, gentle, and kind. She falls in love with Claudio when he falls for her, but when Don John slanders her and Claudio rashly takes revenge, she suffers terribly.

Leonato’s niece and Hero’s cousin. Beatrice is “a pleasant-spirited lady” with a very sharp tongue. She is generous and loving, but, like Benedick, continually mocks other people with elaborately tooled jokes and puns. She wages a war of wits against Benedick and often wins the battles. At the outset of the play, she appears content never to marry. Beatrice is actually very vulnerable because when she hears about Benedicks love for her she opens herself to the sensitivities and weaknesses of love. Beatrice and Benedick end up together at the end of the play.

Benedick is the lord of Padua, he recently returned from fighting in the wars. He vows that he will never marry. He engages with Beatrice in a competition to outwit, outsmart, and out-insult the other, Upon hearing Claudio and Don Pedro discussing Beatrice’s desire for him, Benedick falls madly in love with her and he later on shows how he turns against his own for her. They end up together at the end of the play.

Claudio is a young florentine soldier who has won great acclaim fighting under Don Pedro during the recent wars. Claudio falls in love with Hero upon his return to Messina. His, unfortunately, suspicious nature makes him quick to believe evil rumours and hasty to despair and takes revenge. At the end Claudio and Hero end up together.

Don Pedro is the price of Aragon. He is known as Cupid(for setting everyone up). He is the Prince of Aragon. Don Pedro is a longtime friend of Leonato, Hero’s father, and is also close to the soldiers who have been fighting under him—the younger Benedick and the very young Claudio. Don Pedro is generous, courteous, intelligent, and loving to his friends, but he is also quick to believe evil of others and hasty to take revenge. He is the most politically and socially powerful character in the play.

The illegitimate brother of Don Pedro; sometimes called “the Bastard.” Don John is melancholy and sullen by nature, and he creates a dark scheme to ruin the happiness of Hero and Claudio. He is the villain of the play; his evil actions are motivated by his envy of his brother’s social authority.

A respected, well-to-do, elderly noble at whose home, in Messina, Italy, the action is set. Leonato is the father of Hero and the uncle of Beatrice. As governor of Messina, he is second in social power only to Don Pedro.