Beatrice is Leonato’s niece, Hero’s cousin, and the sworn enemy/true love of Benedick. While she’s supposed to be billed a best supporting actress, it’s usually agreed that...
Benedick Mountanto is a young lord of Padua in the service of Don Pedro, Prince of Arragon. He is a good friend of Count Claudio and a good soldier, but a bit of a mischievous knave. Perhaps Benedi...
Claudio is a young Count from Florence who has distinguished himself as a soldier under Don Pedro, Prince of Arragon. He’s a friend of Benedick and would-be groom, and then actual groom, of H...
Hero is Leonato’s daughter, Beatrice’s cousin, Antonio’s niece, and the beloved (and slandered) fiancée of Claudio. She’s a gentle, loving girl who doesn’t have m...
Don Pedro is the Prince of Arragon, the leader of Benedick and Claudio, a friend of Leonato, the brother of Don John, and lover to no one. Don Pedro, sometimes called "Prince," is the most politica...
Though Don John ostensibly influences all of the action of the play, he has very few speaking lines for a main character. Don John operates as a plot-device more than a fully fleshed out character....
