Summaries

In Act 1; Leanato, Beatrice, Hero and others learn that Don Pedro, Benedict, and Claudio etc are coming to Messina to visit for a while. Upon their arrival, Beatrice and Benedict pick up where they left off on their "merry wars", while Claudio meets and falls inlove with Leanato's daughter, Hero. Claudio and Don Pedro now come up with a plan to get Hero to fall in love with Claudio, but however, Don John finds out about Claudio's and Don Pedro's plan and comes up with a counter-plan along with the help of Barachio and Conrade, to over throw Claudio and Pedro's plan by attempting to make Hero fall inlove with Don Pedro instead of Claudio.

In Act 2; Don John's plan takes action and he starts by informing Claudio about a "lie" that Don Pedro is trying to flip the plan and get Hero for himself instead of doing what he agreed to do in the first plan they were suppose to persue. Beatrice converses with her uncle, Leanato about her feelings towards men and marriage. She makes mention of the fact that she would never get married as she has not yet met a man who is worthy of her praise. Don Pedro, Claudio and Balthasar now converse as they listen to some music that was brought by balthasar and finally, Don Pedro, Claudio and Leanato sneakily converse about a "rumour" that Beatrice was truly in love with Benedict. As Benedict heard this, he began to believe since he overheard that it was Hero to whom Beatrice had told this.

In Act 3; Hero comes up with a plan that herself, Ursula, and Margaret are going to try and convince Beatrice that Benedict is in love with her. They do so by  "knowingly" allowing Beatrice to eavesdrop on a conversation between Hero and Ursula about Benedict's love for her ( Beatrice).It goes on to talk about the continuation of Don John's plan as he tries to persuade Claudio and Don Pedro to believe him when he says that Hero is not who she appears to be. Little does Hero know that she may be in line to receive some sort of great embarassment or shame on her big day.The wedding day arrives and as Hero get ready for her wedding, herself, Beatrice and Margret convesres about different things, one of which happens to be Benedict. Lastly the chapter ends with an encounter between Leanato, Dog Berry and Verges.