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CLASSICAL COMICS STUDY GUIDE
Much Ado About Nothing Making Shakespeare accessible for teachers and students
Suitable for KS2 and KS3 Written by: Karen Wenborn
CLASSICAL COMICS STUDY GUIDE Much Ado About Nothing First UK Edition Copyright ©2007 Classical Comics Ltd. All rights reserved. Copyright notice: This downloadable resource is protected by international copyright law. Teachers and students are free to reproduce these pages by any method without infringing copyright restrictions, provided that the number of copies reproduced does not exceed the amount reasonably required for their own use. Under no circumstances can these resources be reused in whole or in part, for any commercial purposes, or for any purposes that are competitive to, or could be deemed to be in competition with, the business of Classical Comics Ltd. Written by: Karen Wenborn Design/Layout by: Jo Wheeler Character designs & original artwork by: John Stokes Lettering: Clive Bryant Rights: The rights of John Stokes and Clive Bryant to be identified as artists of this work have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 sections 77 and 78. Acknowledgments: Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders of material reproduced in this book. Any rights not acknowledged here will be acknowledged in subsequent editions if notice is given to Classical Comics Ltd. All enquiries should be addressed to: Classical Comics Ltd. PO Box 7280 Litchborough Towcester NN12 9AR, UK Tel: 0845 812 3000 [email protected] www.classicalcomics.com Whilst all care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information provided, Classical Comics Ltd disclaims all warranties; expressed or implied, for any errors or omissions. Classical Comics Ltd are not responsible or liable for any alleged damage arising from reliance upon the information provided, which is provided “as-is” without guarantee or warranty.
Classical Comics Study Guide: Much Ado About Nothing
CONTENTS LANGUAGE Metaphors & Similes ....................................................................................................................4 Missing Words ................................................................................................................................5 How Insulting! ................................................................................................................................6 Connect the Quotes ......................................................................................................................8 Word Search ................................................................................................................................10
PERFORMANCE Performing the Play ....................................................................................................................11
UNDERSTANDING THE PLAY Character & Motivation ..............................................................................................................12 Ideas, Themes & Issues ............................................................................................................13
ANSWERS Word Search Solution ................................................................................................................14
Classical Comics Study Guide: Much Ado About Nothing
Language
MUCH ADO ABOUT LANGUAGE WORKSHEET 1 Re-read the speeches looking for examples of metaphor and simile. If possible, underline or highlight them when you find them. Put ‘M’ or ‘S’ in the margin next to each one. If you have time, look for other examples of metaphor and simile in the play.
TASK: Discuss this as a group. Have you identified them correctly? Look again at the following images from the speeches and from other parts of the play.
Explain what is being said in these speeches.
“That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value.” “As strange as the thing I know not. It were possible For me to say I loved nothing so well as you. But believe me not, and yet I lie not; I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.” “He is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it.” “Good morrow Benedick. Why, what’s the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?” “Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low – And some such strange bull leaped your father’s cow, And got a calf in that same noble feat Much like to you, for you have just his bleat.” “And when I lived, I was your other wife; And when you loved, you were my other husband.” “I’ll tell thee what, prince; a college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?” 4
Classical Comics Study Guide: Much Ado About Nothing
Language
MUCH ADO ABOUT LANGUAGE WORKSHEET 2 MISSING WORDS To complete the sentences below, underline the correct word in the box, and then write it in the gap. Be careful – there are some traps in the box! 1.
Marry, this, well carried, shall on her behalf Change to ; that is some good:
2.
And every lovely Shall come
3.
Being that I flow in grief, The smallest
of her life in more precious habit.
may lead me.
4.
Will you not eat your ? that can be devised to it. I protest I love thee. With no
5.
I cannot be a
6.
To me, or me ; one of them. Signior Leonato, truth it is, good signior, Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.
7.
I think he thinks upon the savage Tush, fear not, man; we’ll tip thy
8.
I’ll tell thee what, prince ; a college
9.
Think not on him till to-morrow : I’ll devise
10.
She died, my lord, but whiles her
with wishing, therefore I will die a
with grieving.
. with gold, of cannot flout me out of my humour. for him. Strike up, pipers. lived.
slander remorse organ apparell’d part bad string food man undo good rope word sauce reason bind horns strong-men punishments spear woman bull wit-crackers brave students lion staff tie words child slander 5
Classical Comics Study Guide: Much Ado About Nothing
Language
MUCH ADO ABOUT INSULTS! WORKSHEET 3 Shakespeare often made up his own words, especially when he wanted to create strong images. Many of these were used by characters to insult each other. Can you work out which words are still used today? Match one word from Column 1 with one word from Column 2 and one from Column 3. Cut them out and shuffle them around. Try different combinations to see who can produce the most offensive insult! Put the word ‘thou’ (you) at the beginning and you have a sentence. Words made from putting two words together are called compound words. Can you work out what some of them might mean? Column 1: Adjective
Column 2: Compound Adjective
Column 3: Nouns and Compound Nouns
artless bawdy beslubbering bootless burly-boned caluminous churlish cockered clouted craven cullionly currish dankish dissembling droning errant fawning fishified fobbing frothy fusty gleeking goatish gorbellied impertinent infectious jarring loggerheaded
base-court bat-fowling beef-witted beetle-headed boil-brained brazen-faced bunch-back’d clapper-clawed clay-brained common-kissing crook-pated dismal-dreaming dizzy-eyed doghearted dread-bolted earth-vexing elf-skinned fat-kidneyed fen-sucked flap-mouthed fly-bitten folly-fallen fool-born full-gorged guts-griping half-faced hasty-witted hedge-born
apple-john baggage barnacle basket-cockle bladder blind-worm boar-pig braggart bugbear canker-blossom clotpole coxcomb codpiece cur death-token devil-monk dewberry flap-dragon flax-wench flirt-gill foot-licker fustilarian giglet gudgeon haggard harpy hedge-pig horn-beast
lumpish mammering mangled misbegotten mewling odiferous
hell-hated idle-headed ill-breeding ill-nurtured knotty-pated leaden-footed
hugger-mugger jolt-head lewdster lout malcontent maggot-pie 6
Classical Comics Study Guide: Much Ado About Nothing
Language
Column 1: Adjective
Column 2: Compound Adjective
Column 3: Nouns and Compound Nouns
paunchy poisonous pribbling puking puny qualling rampallian rank reeky roguish ruttish saucy spleeny spongy surly tottering unmuzzled unwash’d venomed villainous warped wart-necked wayward weedy whoreson
lily-livered malmsey-nosed milk-livered motley-minded muddy-mettled onion-eyed pigeon-liver’d plume-plucked pottle-deep pox-marked reeling-ripe rough-hewn rude-growing rump-fed scale-sided scurvy-valiant shard-borne sheep-biting spur-galled swag-bellied tardy-gaited tickle-brained toad-spotted unchin-snouted weather-bitten
malt-worm mammet measle minnow miscreant mouldwarp mumble-news nut-hook pigeon-egg pignut popinjay puttock pumpion rascal ratsbane scullion scut skainsmate strumpet toad varlot vassal whey-face wagtail yoke-devil
GAME: Divide the class into two. Line up the two halves facing each other, making Line 1 and Line 2. This may be best done outside! Take turns to shout out words from the list as follows: 1. The first person in Line 1 calls out a word of his or her choice from Column 1. 2. The first person in Line 2 has to respond with a word starting with the same letter from Column 2. 3. The second person in Line 1 then completes the insult with any word from Column 3. 4. The process starts again with the second person in Line 2, and so on.
Optional extra rule: Everyone must listen and try to avoid repeating words that have already been called out. Anyone who repeats a word is ‘out’ and has to leave the line. The game continues until only a few people are left or the words have all been used up.
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Language
MUCH ADO ABOUT LANGUAGE WORKSHEET 4 GAME: Connect the Quotes - who said what? A game played in pairs. Cut out and use the quotations suggested here, and select and add more of your own.
Why, what’s the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness?
I’ll tell thee what, prince; a college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour.
It were as possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you: but believe me not; and yet I lie not; I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing.
Why, then we rack the value, then we find the virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
You know your office, brother: You must be father to your brother’s daughter, And give her to young Claudio.
Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.
You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about to protest I loved you.
Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you in this case. Your daughter here the princes left for dead.
You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.
And so am I, being else by faith enforced to call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.
For here’s a paper, written in his hand, A halting sonnet of his own pure brain, Fashion’d to Beatrice.
Peace! I will stop your mouth.
Each student draws one quote out of the bag at a time, and links it to the correct character. The first to get a line of four ‘wins’. You can use the grid on the next page.
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Language
MUCH ADO ABOUT LANGUAGE
Friar
Leonato
Benedick
Beatrice
Antonio
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Don Pedro
Claudio
Hero
Classical Comics Study Guide: Much Ado About Nothing
Language
WORD SEARCH WORKSHEET 5 Find each of the following words: MONUMENT BEATRICE MOURNING SATIRE RANCOUR WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
REPUTATION CLAUDIO ANTONIO ENIGMATICAL HERO COMEDY
SLANDER DISHONOURED GIDDY EPITAPHS AMIABLE UNMITIGATED
TESTIMONY URSULA OSTENTATION CUDGELLED
Write down how many times you found each word. If you found a word five times then write 5.
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Classical Comics Study Guide: Much Ado About Nothing
Performance
MUCH ADO ABOUT PERFORMING THE PLAY WORKSHEET 6 TASK: Divide The Friar’s speech in Act 4 scene 1 into whole sentences or phrases.
Each member of the class has one sentence or phrase. Memorise it! You will need plenty of room for this. • Practice saying the sentence or phrase in as many different ways as possible: - Shout it! - Whisper it. - Say it in a pleading tone. - Sing it! - Say it in a persuading tone. - Say it quickly! - Say it slowly. - Say it angrily! - Say it as if you are apologising. - Say it sarcastically.
• Choose a way to say it that you think fits what The Friar is saying in that part of the speech. • Everyone form a circle, standing in the order of the speech. In your circle, decide what you’re going to do when you say your line. You could step forward, shake your fist, raise your arms etc. You decide. • Go around the circle in order, each person saying his or her sentence in turn. • You’ve all performed the speech together!
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Understanding the Play
MUCH ADO ABOUT CHARACTER AND MOTIVATION WORKSHEET 7 Here we explore links and relationships between the key characters, although the mind map can be used in many ways to explore other themes within the play, such as motivation.
TASK: Draw a mind map linking Benedick, Claudio, Hero and Beatrice. Below is an example of a mind map. Explain the connections, using quotes where you can.
5. The structure that should develop will be a ‘radiant hierarchy’, with ideas radiating out from your central themes and main branches.
1. Start at the centre of a blank, landscape page, ideally with a colourful image to represent your subject.
2. Use words and pictures throughout your map. Wherever possible use single KEY words, printed along a line. Each word or picture sits on its own line.
4. Experiment with different ways of linking and emphasizing different aspects. Use highlighters, codes and arrows as necessary.
3. The lines make the association between ideas as clear as possible. Make them flowing and organic and make each line the same length as the word or image. Always ensure that lines connect to the end of the line at the previous level. Typically lines will be thicker at the centre and thinner further out.
Use one of the images from the book in the centre of the page to start you off. Now draw lines to each character showing who loves whom, how they are connected and any other ‘joining’ threads you can think of.
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Classical Comics Study Guide: Much Ado About Nothing
Understanding the Play
MUCH ADO ABOUT IDEAS, THEMES AND ISSUES WORKSHEET 8 GROUP WORK AND DISCUSSION: 1.
In groups, create a mind map of all the words and phrases that you can think of that are to do with love.
2.
Then, divide them into ‘negative’ and ‘positive’ halves. Does every group have the same number of negative or positive terms? Do different groups have different ideas about love?
3.
Use a map to examine the different roles, morals and social guidelines for men and women as portrayed in the play.
4.
How do they differ from the roles of men and women today?
Here is an example of a mind map based on William Shakespeare:
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Answers
WORD SEARCH SOLUTION WORKSHEET 5 The number of times each word is found in the grid is in brackets: MONUMENT (2) BEATRICE (3) MOURNING (3) SATIRE (2) RANCOUR (2) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1)
REPUTATION (1) CLAUDIO (2) ANTONIO (2) ENIGMATICAL (1) HERO (5) COMEDY (3)
SLANDER (2) DISHONOURED (1) GIDDY (4) EPITAPHS (1) AMIABLE (2) UNMITIGATED (1)
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TESTIMONY (2) URSULA (3) OSTENTATION (1) CUDGELLED (2)