Much Ado About Nothing: locations

Sicily

• MessinaScene

  The Sicilian city in which the entire play is set; Leonato is its governor, and Don Pedro's party arrives here after the war.

• Leonato's houseScene

  The play's principal setting in Messina. Its rooms and hall host Don Pedro's arrival, the masked celebration, the plots concerning Beatrice and Benedick, and the final reconciliation and marriages.

• Leonato's garden or orchardScene

  The grounds of Leonato's house, where Benedick and Beatrice are separately deceived into believing that each loves the other.

• A street in MessinaScene

  The Watch patrols here, overhears Borachio confess Don John's plot against Hero, and arrests Borachio and Conrade.

• A church in MessinaScene

  The intended wedding place of Claudio and Hero. Claudio publicly rejects Hero here, after which Friar Francis proposes the stratagem of reporting her death.

• The churchyard and Hero's tombScene

  Claudio and Don Pedro hold a nocturnal vigil at what they believe is Hero's tomb, reading an epitaph and mourning her supposed death.

• The prisonScene

  Dogberry, Verges, and the Sexton examine Borachio and Conrade here, exposing the plot used to slander Hero.