#benedick and beatrice

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Benedick being just the most extra dramatical cat you've ever met IS the vibe of this play. And that's at least a little bit why we love it!

[transsexualcoriolanus]

benedick's real name is actually benedict, but beatrice started calling him benedick as a joke and it caught on. it's her biggest achievement and she frequently tries to gaslight people into thinking his name has always been benedick. most of his friends are completely unaware that it isn't. benedick gave up trying to get rid of it long ago and has simply accepted his fate.

[burningclocks]

Blorbo from my literary analysis essay

[removeoffthecraudestoppers]

Adaptations of Much Ado I'd like to see:

Hero and Claudio are still young, but Benedick and Beatrice are much older. "I know you of old" carries literal decades of meaning. Beatrice going on about men with beards or without gets even funnier. Benedick resigning from the Prince's service is a huge deal because he's served for a very long time. Having a different sworn brother every week is super cringe. "The world must be peopled", Beatrice is 20 years post menopause.

Or, the flip side. B&B are super young. They keep talking about being sworn off love for life but they're like 20. Their feud probably goes back to one of them throwing sand at the other in primary school.

[janesaustenss]

much ado about nothing brainrot is real… the most recent globe adaptation with amalia vitale and ekow quartey as benedick and beatrice has sent me back into a rom com spiral that can’t be stopped

[rocknrollinbitchforu]

benedick and beatrice are the original klance

[theangelwithawand]

Shakespeare Incorrect Quotes: Much Ado About Nothing 4

Benedick : Am I right, Beatrice?

Beatrice: I’m almost certain you’re not, but to be fair, I wasn’t listening.

Hero: The salary of a clown is 51,000 dollars.

Hero, gesturing to Beatrice and Benedick fighting: And yet these idiots do it daily, and for free!

Friar Francis: *watching the squad's shenanigans with concern* Do you feel like this has gotten out of hand?

Imogen: I don't know. Feels normal enough for a group that's on 911's blocked callers list.

Benedick: I have been tricked, I have been backstabbed, and I have quite possibly been bamboozled.

Benedick: Why are you burning our marriage certificate!?

Beatrice: Good luck trying to return me without a receipt.

Hero: While I'm gone, you're in charge Claudio.

Claudio: Yes!

Hero, whispering to Beatrice: You're secretly in charge, but I don't want them to feel bad.

Beatrice: Obviously.

Beatrice: What do I get?

Benedick: A night of fashion, mischief, mayhem, and possible death.

Beatrice: Ooh, check, check, and check; not sure about that last one.

Benedick: It won't be you.

Beatrice: I'll get my coat.

Hero, pointing a camera at Beatrice: There they are, our sweet baby.

Beatrice, holding a cigarette and a beer: What-?

Beatrice: I didn’t even realize how sarcastic I was being. It’s starting to become a problem, I think.

Claudio: I sort of did something and I need some advice, but I don't want a lot of judgment and criticism.

Beatrice: And you came to me?

Claudio: Hero, what does IDK, ILY, and TTYL mean?

Hero: I don’t know, I love you, talk to you later.

Claudio: Alright, I love you too, I'll ask Benedick.

Hero: Wait- Claudio, no-

*At the police station*

Beatrice: Hi, I’m here for Benedick.

Police officer: Who’s Benedick?

Beatrice: Ah, you must be new.

Beatrice: All in all, a 100% successful trip.

Hero: But we lost Claudio.

Beatrice: All in all, a 100% successful trip!

Beatrice, to Claudio: Are you peanuts? Because I want to boil you alive.

Hero: I left instructions for everyone while I'm gone.

Claudio: Mine just says "Claudio no."

Hero: I want you to apply it to every possible situation.

Beatrice: I didn't drink that much last night.

Hero: You were flirting with Benedick.

Beatrice: So what? They're my partner.

Hero: You asked if they were single.

Hero: And then you cried when they said they weren't.

Claudio: I only have 6 weeks left to live.

Don Pedro: Oh my god, really?!

Claudio: It's just a guesstimate based on the choices I've made.

Leonato: I just found out from Hero today that when Claudio died and the service did the 21-gun salute at their funeral, Beatrice said, “They should aim at the coffin to be sure.”

Beatrice: Benedick and I got married!!

Hero: Don't share your personal problems with everyone.

Beatrice: Claudio, this morning, I called you abhorrent and reprehensible, and I��d like to withdraw that statement-

Claudio: Aww, thanks-

Beatrice: But I can't. Those are the 2 words that best describe you.

Beatrice: Hey, quick question. How petty am I allowed to be?

Claudio: Benedick, why are you standing in front of the fan?

Benedick: I’m waiting for Beatrice to look into our window when they come home. When the fan is blowing on me, I look like a fancy supermodel.

Claudio: You want Beatrice to think you’re a supermodel?

Benedick: Giving them eye candy is the least I can do. It’ll probably be the best part of their walk!

Claudio, sarcastically: You’re selfless.

Benedick: Thank you for noticing.

Hero: *trying to get five seconds of sleep*

Beatrice, poking Hero’s arm: Hero Hero. Hero. Hero.

Hero: WHAT?

Beatrice: …We’re out of Capri Suns—

Claudio: *working in a flower shop and minding their own business*

Benedick, storming into the store and slapping $20 on the counter: HOW DO I PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVELY SAY “FUCK YOU” IN FLOWER???

Claudio: Hey, Benedick? Can I get some dating advice?

Benedick: Just because I'm with Beatrice doesn't mean I know how I did it.

Beatrice: I hate you.

Benedick: Well, according to this picture I drew of us holding hands, that is untrue.

Benedick: Beatrice and I are no longer dating.

Beatrice: Benedick, that’s a horrible way of telling people we’re married.

Claudio: How is the most beautiful person in the world?

Hero: *blushing* I—

Benedick, butting into the conversation: Beatrice is perfect, thanks for asking.

[bookholichany]

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[endwithajadestrick]

One of the best moments from Shakespeare, possibly under-rated? It's such a clever and very human joke to have a character waffle this hard on a love confession. The actresses I've seen play Beatrice always have so much fun with this part. "I confess NOTHING."

[checkoutmybookshelf]

When you show up to a masquerade with the express purpose of setting your best friend up with your nemesis's cousin, and said nemesis calls your ass out while pretending not to recognize you and then you try to play the wounded party:

"She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that  I was the prince's jester, that I was duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs" (Much Ado, 2.1.242-248).

[kaleb-is-definitely-sane]

This gets better when you remember that truth and lies, honestly and deceit, identity (known and otherwise) are MAJOR themes of the play. All throughout the play women are said (in particular by Benedick) to be lying and deceitful cheaters who cheat.

But it's the men who wear masks that hide their identities and try to trick the women.

It's a man who comes up with the idea to trick Benedick and Beatrice into admitting their very obvious feelings.

It's a man who lies to Claudio and tries to frame Hero.

But it's also the Benedick, the most self acclaimed misogynistic woman hater of them all, who is the only man to believe Hero (who btw he kept making fun of in 1.1). And that's because of his love and trust of Beatrice.

It's beautiful yall. It's beautiful.

i’m obsessed with benedick and beatrice and the fact that he trusts her. claudio refuses to believe that hero is innocent no matter what she says. no one believes her, even leonato immediately takes claudio’s word, a man who he has known for a few days, over his own daughter’s. and beatrice knows it’s a lie but no one believes her because the word of a woman means nothing. but benedick believes her. he doesn’t know hero that well, he has no evidence to prove that she is innocent, but he knows she is because beatrice says so, and he trusts her - more than he trusts even claudio, his “sworn brother”. the contrast between claudio’s “proof” destroying his trust in hero, and benedick trusting beatrice no matter what, even though he has no proof

[bethanydelleman]

I was talking about a historical male author I dislike because I found his works misogynistic and the person said, "Oh, well I suppose you don't read Shakespeare either." and I was like, "Shakespeare? SHAKESPEARE?!?! Of course I read Shakespeare, that man loved women."

Shakespeare wrote a wide variety of fleshed out female characters. He wrote Damsels in Distress, Cross-dressing Girlbosses, and Complex Female Villains. He wrote a woman who refused to sell her virtue to save her family and then shamed her brother for suggesting it. He wrote Taming of the Shrew and it's opposite, All's Well that Ends Well, in which the wife hunts down and tames the husband. He wrote men who are good because they listen to, trust, and defend women. He wrote women of all kinds. He wrote women who drive the plot and women doomed by the narrative. He wrote women in love and women who pathetically follow a man who doesn't like them and women in hatred. He wrote sensible women and silly women and everything in between of all ages.

I wish modern authors could write women as well as he did.

[janesaustenss]

had the most normal reaction to this when i watched it btw (head in hands, guttural screaming, eating glass etc.)

[davidtennantedits]

Catherine Tate and David Tennant in Wyndham's Theatre's Much Ado About Nothing (2011) Doctor Who 60th Anniversary's Wild Blue Yonder (2023)

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