Key quotations — Much Ado About Nothing — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
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'.
OCR's question on this play is one essay, from a choice of two, for 40 marks: an extract-based question on the printed extract and the play elsewhere, or a discursive question on a view of the play, using at least two moments. Response (AO1) and language, form and structure (AO2) carry the most weight and equal weight, context (AO3) counts as the play shows it, and 4 marks are for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation (AO4). An extract-based answer that never leaves the extract, or a discursive answer built on one moment, cannot go above Level 3. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the question it is for.
