Key quotations — Much Ado About Nothing — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from Much Ado About Nothing, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her', 'I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me', 'Can the world buy such a jewel?', 'it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain', 'Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more', 'Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand', 'Give not this rotten orange to your friend', 'O God, that I were a man!', 'Comparisons are odorous', 'Done to death by slanderous tongues', 'Peace! I will stop your mouth' and 'man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion'.
Edexcel's Shakespeare question has two parts: part (a) on the printed extract marks only language, form and structure (AO2), so context earns nothing there; part (b) on the play elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1, 15 marks) and context (AO3, 5 marks), not language analysis. Say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
