HERO


Meaning of HERO in English

the daughter of Leonato and cousin to Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Hero is the docile, ingenue heroine who buckles in the face of slander, literally fainting when falsely denounced as unchaste. Conventional in character, she and her beloved Claudio are foils to the play's sparring couple, Beatrice and Benedick.

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