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Lizzie 2022-05-24 20:23:42
Do nothing
The opening is cheerful and grand. The whole adaptation not only respects the ancient meaning of the original, but also has modern elements to add to the icing on the cake. I am ashamed that Shakespeare’s works were only read through the library when he was studying the history of foreign...
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Emmanuelle 2022-05-24 13:00:24
sarcasm-addict
sarcasm almost is a kind of british tradition. they love and willingly to use elegant words to push the listeners to hang themselves. when the first time Benedick and Beatrice met, they almost use their each tongue to strangle each other. as audience, it's very enjoyable to see these quarrelsome...
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Ursula: Madam!
Benedick: Here comes one in haste.
Ursula: You must come to your uncle. Yonder's old coil at home. It is proved my lady Hero hath been falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily abused and Don John is the author of all, who is fled and gone. Will you come, presently?
Beatrice: Will you go hear this news, signior?
Benedick: I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap and be buried in thy eyes, and moreover I will go with thee to thy uncle's.
Beatrice: [laughs]
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Leonato: Are you yet determined to marry with my brother's daughter?
[Claudio nods]
Leonato: Call her forth, brother. Here's the friar ready.
[Four veiled ladies are presented]
Claudio: Which is the lady I must seize upon?
Antonio: [Brings forth one lady] This same is she and I do give you her.
Claudio: Sweet, let me see your face.
Leonato: No, that you shall not till you take her hand before this friar and swear to marry her.
Claudio: [Kneels] Give me your hand, before this holy friar. I am your husband if you like of me.
Hero: [Removes veil]
Don Pedro: Hero that is dead.
Leonato: She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.
Hero: And when I lived, I was your other wife. And when you loved you were my other husband. One Hero died defiled, but I do live and surely as I live, I am a maid.
