THE THATCHED VISOR IN MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING AND VIOLA'S BEARD IN TWELFTH NIGHT

From: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Daalder, Joost | Copyright information

Act 2, scene 1 of Much Ado About Nothing presents us with a masquerade, in which the following exchange occurs between Don Pedro and Hero:

The sense of the passage has created considerable puzzlement, perhaps most conspicuously so when Hero says that Don Pedro's visor "should be thatched" (1. 96). For example, Sheldon Zitner, from whose edition I quote the passage, says about lines 94-7:

Don Pedro and Hero speak in the rhymed "fourteeners" (lines of 14 syllables, or two lines al...

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