Cole Kennedy
Ms. Duke
English III
2.10.2014
Promptbook Act 2:
Scene 1
1.
LEONATO(Leonato, wearing his best collared shirt and khaki pants, stands among his friends Hero and Beatrice and his twin brother Antonio, is at the dance early waiting for things to get started and extremely nervous from being the first ones there. His hair is slicked back and he is also wearing his nice deck shoes. Comfortable among his friends, conversation starts to emerge. he speaks very naturally and the four are standing center stage in a circle with the spotlights on them.)
By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a
husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
ANTONIO (Dressed similarly to Leonato but much more timid)
In faith, she's too curst.
BEATRICE (Beatrice is the more dominant figure. She is the one who is the most dramatic out of the bunch. She is dressed in her little green flower dress with her pink flats and a headband with a bow in it. She. really. likes. to. talk.)
Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessen God's
sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a curst
cow short horns;' but to a cow too curst he sends none.
LEONATO (in the usual tone of their quite frequent quarrels, he engages in usual conversation. there is always a little tension between Leonato and Beatrice because L is always trying to watch out for B but she doesn't really care.)
So, by being too curst, God will send you no horns.
BEATRICE (She doesn't really mean this when she says it, she is only saying it because she wants to be different and she wants like attention, but it is sort of unrealistic, of course she wants a husband...lol)
Just, if he send me no husband; for the which
blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and
evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a
beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.
LEONATO ( A clever remark, he is quite pleased with himself when he says it as he steps forward and looks at the audience as he says it. Then either the laugh track plays or the crowd laughs over it.)
You may light on a husband that hath no beard.
BEATRICE (Beatrice takes this joke a little too seriously, not in an offensive way, she just goes off on a tangent and starts to talk about how she doesn't want a boyfriend, really all this is is yapping. It doesn't mean much.)
What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel
and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a
beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no
beard is less than a man: and he that is more than
a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a
man, I am not for him: therefore, I will even take
sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his
apes into hell.
LEONATO (He plays off of her joke in an attempt to make the comedy roll)
Well, then, go you into hell?
BEATRICE ( Now it is not a joke, it is an elaborate story, the details of which come to Beatrice's head right before she says it.)
No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet
me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and
say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to
heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver
I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the
heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and
there live we as merry as the day is long.
ANTONIO (Just chiming in, he speaks lowly and quickly to get his point across. He is the quiet one, we realize that with this line by the way he says it.)
[To HERO] Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled
by your father.
BEATRICE (Strongly, she finishes with her last statement, she is pleased that she carried the conversation out like this, the door opens as more students begin to walk in and split up into their respective gender groups.)
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy
and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all
that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else
make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please
me.'
LEONATO ( He is trying to be nice, He knows what she really wants, but he is sort of sneaky about it. He just kind of leaves what she has said alone as the crowd enters.)
Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.
husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
ANTONIO (Dressed similarly to Leonato but much more timid)
In faith, she's too curst.
BEATRICE (Beatrice is the more dominant figure. She is the one who is the most dramatic out of the bunch. She is dressed in her little green flower dress with her pink flats and a headband with a bow in it. She. really. likes. to. talk.)
Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessen God's
sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a curst
cow short horns;' but to a cow too curst he sends none.
LEONATO (in the usual tone of their quite frequent quarrels, he engages in usual conversation. there is always a little tension between Leonato and Beatrice because L is always trying to watch out for B but she doesn't really care.)
So, by being too curst, God will send you no horns.
BEATRICE (She doesn't really mean this when she says it, she is only saying it because she wants to be different and she wants like attention, but it is sort of unrealistic, of course she wants a husband...lol)
Just, if he send me no husband; for the which
blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and
evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a
beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.
LEONATO ( A clever remark, he is quite pleased with himself when he says it as he steps forward and looks at the audience as he says it. Then either the laugh track plays or the crowd laughs over it.)
You may light on a husband that hath no beard.
BEATRICE (Beatrice takes this joke a little too seriously, not in an offensive way, she just goes off on a tangent and starts to talk about how she doesn't want a boyfriend, really all this is is yapping. It doesn't mean much.)
What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel
and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a
beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no
beard is less than a man: and he that is more than
a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a
man, I am not for him: therefore, I will even take
sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his
apes into hell.
LEONATO (He plays off of her joke in an attempt to make the comedy roll)
Well, then, go you into hell?
BEATRICE ( Now it is not a joke, it is an elaborate story, the details of which come to Beatrice's head right before she says it.)
No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet
me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and
say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to
heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver
I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the
heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and
there live we as merry as the day is long.
ANTONIO (Just chiming in, he speaks lowly and quickly to get his point across. He is the quiet one, we realize that with this line by the way he says it.)
[To HERO] Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled
by your father.
BEATRICE (Strongly, she finishes with her last statement, she is pleased that she carried the conversation out like this, the door opens as more students begin to walk in and split up into their respective gender groups.)
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy
and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all
that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else
make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please
me.'
LEONATO ( He is trying to be nice, He knows what she really wants, but he is sort of sneaky about it. He just kind of leaves what she has said alone as the crowd enters.)
Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.
(the lights go dim over the whole stage as the mingling of the boys with boys and the girls with girls begins. There is party music playing very loudly in the background, rendering the sounds made by the characters impossible to hear. Also, everyone puts on their elaborate masks, a combination of that and a very dark room leads to overall confusion about who people are, as well as a complete unawareness that people don't know who they are.)
2.
(After the awkward silence is broken, pairs of dancers begin to form as they try to perform the dancing they learned in P.E. class that week. The dance music is playing quielty in the background so you can hear the talking, and while all the characters are on stage, the spotlight hits the couple that is at center stage and is talking. So like here the light is on DP and Hero. everyone else is dancing in the background)
DON PEDRO ( Don Pedro is Claudio's best friend, he is smooth with the ladies and is helping out his best bud Claudio, he kind of likes hero but sent in Pedro to see of she likes him back. So, he is super smooth, well as smooth as a seventh grader can get.)
Lady, will you walk about with your friend?
HERO (taken somewhat by surprise, she knows that Claudio likes her so she can assume that the person dancing with her is Claudio. She acts very sweet though, like she kind of likes him)
So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing,
I am yours for the walk; and especially when I walk away.
DON PEDRO (He is wearing a suit with a ruffled collar and no tie, or whatever is cool to wear at 7th grade dances.)
With me in your company?
HERO (A beautiful young girl, dressed in a simple blue dress. She is reserved and quiet, the kind that people would really like when she gets to like high school)
I may say so, when I please.
DON PEDRO (He is woeing her sort of, but he has figured out that she like Claudio)
And when please you to say so?
HERO
When I like your favour; for God defend the lute
should be like the case!
DON PEDRO
My visor is Philemon's roof; within the house is Jove.
HERO
Why, then, your visor should be thatched.
DON PEDRO (He has got her for Claudio)
Speak low, if you speak love.
Lady, will you walk about with your friend?
HERO (taken somewhat by surprise, she knows that Claudio likes her so she can assume that the person dancing with her is Claudio. She acts very sweet though, like she kind of likes him)
So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing,
I am yours for the walk; and especially when I walk away.
DON PEDRO (He is wearing a suit with a ruffled collar and no tie, or whatever is cool to wear at 7th grade dances.)
With me in your company?
HERO (A beautiful young girl, dressed in a simple blue dress. She is reserved and quiet, the kind that people would really like when she gets to like high school)
I may say so, when I please.
DON PEDRO (He is woeing her sort of, but he has figured out that she like Claudio)
And when please you to say so?
HERO
When I like your favour; for God defend the lute
should be like the case!
DON PEDRO
My visor is Philemon's roof; within the house is Jove.
HERO
Why, then, your visor should be thatched.
DON PEDRO (He has got her for Claudio)
Speak low, if you speak love.
(they move aside, still together danging at the front left of the stage, the spotlight goes off for a few seconds while the music crescendos and decrescendos as the next couple Margaret and Balthasar come together.
BALTHASAR (Balthasar and Margaret are the more "mature" people of the grade. They do more than any 7th grader should.)
Well, I would you did like me.
MARGARET (Margaret is dressed in a really short dress, she has received crap about it from all kinds of teachers, but her parents insisted. She has a certain, i don't care attitude.)
So would not I, for your own sake; for I have many
ill-qualities.
BALTHASAR ( In a somewhat meaningful exchange, Balthasar and Margaret agree to like each other and this is where Balthasar lets Margaret know that he likes her. But his voice is free of nerves.)
Which is one?
MARGARET
I say my prayers aloud.
BALTHASAR
I love you the better: the hearers may cry, Amen.
MARGARET (She kind of shoots Balthasar down when he attempts to dance with her, so they don't dance for a very long time.)
God match me with a good dancer!
BALTHASAR
Amen.
MARGARET
And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is
done! Answer, clerk.
BALTHASAR
No more words: the clerk is answere
Well, I would you did like me.
MARGARET (Margaret is dressed in a really short dress, she has received crap about it from all kinds of teachers, but her parents insisted. She has a certain, i don't care attitude.)
So would not I, for your own sake; for I have many
ill-qualities.
BALTHASAR ( In a somewhat meaningful exchange, Balthasar and Margaret agree to like each other and this is where Balthasar lets Margaret know that he likes her. But his voice is free of nerves.)
Which is one?
MARGARET
I say my prayers aloud.
BALTHASAR
I love you the better: the hearers may cry, Amen.
MARGARET (She kind of shoots Balthasar down when he attempts to dance with her, so they don't dance for a very long time.)
God match me with a good dancer!
BALTHASAR
Amen.
MARGARET
And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is
done! Answer, clerk.
BALTHASAR
No more words: the clerk is answere
(They move aside and talk/dance/stand next to the dancing Hero and DP. The lights get dim again as the music goes up and down as the next couple assembles in the spotlight.)
URSULA (Ursula is a pretty random girl in the grade, she is on of Hero's best friends. Antonio is just dancing with her to dance. No real meaning. Ursula is smart though. She is wearing a black dress with a mask and already knows who she is dancing with)
I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.
ANTONIO ( He is joking around with her, he sounds light, comedic.)
At a word, I am not.
URSULA (She is simply playing into a joke. Trying to provide some light humor to lessen the awkwardness of the random match up now that all the excitement in the mystery of your partner had been taken out.)
I know you by the waggling of your head.
ANTONIO ( '' Dang, you got me")
To tell you true, I counterfeit him.
URSULA ( She is pleased, and is enjoying herself)
You could never do him so ill-well, unless you were
the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down: you
are he, you are he.
ANTONIO
At a word, I am not.
URSULA
Come, come, do you think I do not know you by your
excellent wit? can virtue hide itself? Go to,
mum, you are he: graces will appear, and there's an
end.
As their talking ends, they shift from center stage to the spot next to wear Balthasar and Margaret are talking. The music transition happens again, and Beatrice and Claudio come together. under the spotlight in center stage. The three groups of revelers on the side of the stage now fade back into the rest of the party. A grand spotlight shines on Beatrice and Bendick as they come together at the front of the center of the stage. The music really drops down now.
3.
(Benedick is dressed in a blue button down with light Khakis, all the light and focus is on the couple who come together to dance. Beatrice is somewhat aware of the identity of her partner, but the same cannot be said for Benedick)
BEATRICE
Will you not tell me who told you so?BENEDICK
No, you shall pardon me.
BEATRICE
Nor will you not tell me who you are?
BENEDICK
Not now.
BEATRICE (Somewhat sure of her partner, she continues to talk trash about Benedick to her partner in an attempt to continue the way she has acted towards him so far in the play.)
That I was disdainful, and that I had my good wit
out of the 'Hundred Merry Tales:'--well this was
Signior Benedick that said so.
BENEDICK (He knows now that his partner is Beatrice, but he will not reveal it so he can know what she "really" thinks about him.)
What's he?
BEATRICE
I am sure you know him well enough.
BENEDICK
Not I, believe me.
BEATRICE
Did he never make you laugh?
BENEDICK
I pray you, what is he?
BEATRICE (Have fun with this, you are openly bashing the guy to his face and he has to just sit there and take it. Have fun with it!)
Why, he is the prince's jester: a very dull fool;
only his gift is in devising impossible slanders:
none but libertines delight in him; and the
commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany;
for he both pleases men and angers them, and then
they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in
the fleet: I would he had boarded me.
BENEDICK (Act sort of disappointed but still interested.)
When I know the gentleman, I'll tell him what you say.
BEATRICE
Do, do: he'll but break a comparison or two on me;
which, peradventure not marked or not laughed at,
strikes him into melancholy; and then there's a
partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no
supper that night.
Music( The Music loudens)
We must follow the leaders.
BENEDICK
In every good thing.
BEATRICE
Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at
the next turning.
(The dance ends with a blur of children dancing around the room and the lights come up, then all exeunt except DJ, Borcahio, and Claudio.)
4.
DON JOHN ( He loves to cause mischief and he wants to throw everybody trough a few loops. He is in a black button down with black pants and black shoes. He doesn't smile much but even when he does it isn't very delighting.)
Sure my brother is amorous on Hero and hathwithdrawn her father to break with him about it.
The ladies follow her and but one visor remains.
BORACHIO (Borachio is one of Benedick's troublemaker friends, Benedick is a bully and a bully always has a couple of guys that follow him around and do bully things. Borachio is that mindless friend.)
And that is Claudio: I know him by his bearing.
DON JOHN
Are not you Signior Benedick?
CLAUDIO (Convincingly, as if his entire love life depended on it)
You know me well; I am he.
DON JOHN
Signior, you are very near my brother in his love:
he is enamoured on Hero; I pray you, dissuade him
from her: she is no equal for his birth: you may
do the part of an honest man in it.
CLAUDIO
How know you he loves her?
DON JOHN
I heard him swear his affection.
BORACHIO
So did I too; and he swore he would marry her to-night.
DON JOHN
Come, let us to the banquet.
Exeunt DON JOHN and BORACHIO
CLAUDIO (A little comedy here, a little 7th grader breaking out into a monologue like this, but in complete seriousness.)
Thus answer I in the name of Benedick,
But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio.
'Tis certain so; the prince wooes for himself.
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
This is an accident of hourly proof,
Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!
(He drops to a knee, grabbing his heart. the lights fade and the curtains draw.)
(Shortly after, they draw again as to not misinform the audience that the scene has ended early, Claudio still down, the spotlight reopens on him, and on benedick as he enters to comfort him)
5.
BENEDICK (what's wrong my friend? He has noticed his friends distress.)
Count Claudio?
CLAUDIO (Heartbroken, he has been royally had but has no idea. He is really down right now)
Yea, the same.
BENEDICK
Come, will you go with me?
CLAUDIO
Whither?
BENEDICK
Even to the next willow, about your own business,
county. What fashion will you wear the garland of?
about your neck, like an usurer's chain? or under
your arm, like a lieutenant's scarf? You must wear
it one way, for the prince hath got your Hero.
CLAUDIO
I wish him joy of her.
BENEDICK ( There is disbelief in his voice, a sort of undertone of contempt for Don John, and a hint of hospitality.)
Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they
sell bullocks. But did you think the prince would
have served you thus?
CLAUDIO (Now he thinks that Benedick is messing with him too, which hurts his mood.)
I pray you, leave me.
BENEDICK ( Now he is speaking with straight up desperation, trying to convince his friend that he is wrong)
Ho! now you strike like the blind man: 'twas the
boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post.
CLAUDIO
If it will not be, I'll leave you.
Exit
BENEDICK ( Struck with the same kind of heartbreak as Claudio knowing that his friend isn't seeing the truth and such a great truth!)
Alas, poor hurt fowl! now will he creep into sedges.
But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not
know me! The prince's fool! Ha? It may be I go
under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I
am apt to do myself wrong; I am not so reputed: it
is the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice
that puts the world into her person and so gives me
out. Well, I'll be revenged as I may.
( The Lights go down, and everyone remains in the scene talking, quietly, in the background lighting for a little. Then the music fades, the curtains draw, and Scene 1 ends)
Scene 2
6.Scene two, After the party, Don John approaches Borachio privately. They are still dressed in their party clothing but are now indoors. They sit at a table across from each other.
Enter DON JOHN and BORACHIO
DON JOHN (He says interestingly, as if he is upset, he sees an opportunity.)
It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the
daughter of Leonato.
BORACHIO (In an extremely brown nosed fashion)
Yea, my lord; but I can cross it.
DON JOHN ( He speaks as if he doesn't really believe that he can do it.)
Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be
medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him,
and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges
evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?
BORACHIO ( Trying to convince him as if his reputation depended on it)
Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no
dishonesty shall appear in me.
DON JOHN
Show me briefly how.
BORACHIO
I think I told your lordship a year since, how much
I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting
gentlewoman to Hero.
DON JOHN (In a dreadfully sarcastic tone.)
I remember.
BORACHIO
I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,
appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.
DON JOHN
What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage?
BORACHIO ( After he finishes his statement, Don John nods and Borachio leaves the room rather hastily, he is very excited about all of this. Don John sits at the table, takes a sip of hot chocolate, smiles, and chuckles in pleasure because he likes the plan, Silently, the curtains draw and scene 2 ends)
The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to
the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that
he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned
Claudio--whose estimation do you mightily hold
up--to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.
Scene 3.
7.( This is at the same time as Don John and Borachio's encounter. All still in party attire, Benedick, Balthasar, Leonato, Claudio, and Don Pedro have gathered to hang out after the party. They're all a little tipsy and very rowdy, sitting in a garden, outside where there noise isnt a bother.
BENEDICK (Screaming and slapping the table.)
Now, divine air! now is his soul ravished! Is it
not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out
of men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when
all's done.
The Song
BALTHASAR (unable to perform the song correctly, Balthasar stumbles accordingly to his drunkenness towards the begging, but with feeling towards the end)
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never:
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no moe,
Of dumps so dull and heavy;
The fraud of men was ever so,
Since summer first was leafy:
Then sigh not so, & c.
DON PEDRO (Impressed)
By my troth, a good song.
BALTHASAR (A clever joke)
And an ill singer, my lord.
DON PEDRO (Slapping that table with a big hearty laugh)
Ha, no, no, faith; thou singest well enough for a shift.
BENEDICK (Continuing the joke and touching DP as if he is seeking approval to add to the joke.)
An he had been a dog that should have howled thus,
they would have hanged him: and I pray God his bad
voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the
night-raven, come what plague could have come after
it.
DON PEDRO (There is some foreshadowing here with the mention of Hero's chamber and there is special emphasis put on that part of the speech.)
Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray thee,
get us some excellent music; for to-morrow night we
would have it at the Lady Hero's chamber-window.
BALTHASAR
The best I can, my lord.
DON PEDRO (AS Balthasar runs off , DP doesn't really see him off, he just turns around and continues his and Benedick's walk through the garden.)
Do so: farewell.
8. As part of their plan to throw Benedick and Beatrice together, The gang walks through the garden after the party and pretends to have a private conversation in which they know that Benedick is listening. They talk about how Beatrice "loves" him.
LEONATO (croucing in a group as Beenedick runs across the stage jumping from cover to cover attempting to listen in on the conversation. The group walks horizontally across the stage starting off stage right. There is no spotlight, just a well lit stage in which you can see all the characters. the group stops in the middle and talks sort of loudly, to assure that Benedick hears them)
Come hither, Leonato. What was it you told me of
to-day, that your niece Beatrice was in love with
Signior Benedick?
CLAUDIO
O, ay: stalk on. stalk on; the fowl sits. I did
never think that lady would have loved any man.
LEONATO
No, nor I neither; but most wonderful that she
should so dote on Signior Benedick, whom she hath in
all outward behaviors seemed ever to abhor.
BENEDICK ( pooping his head out of cover to affirm his thoughts)
Is't possible? Sits the wind in that corner?
LEONATO
By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to think
of it but that she loves him with an enraged
affection: it is past the infinite of thought.
DON PEDRO (almost laughing)
May be she doth but counterfeit.
CLAUDIO
Faith, like enough.
LEONATO (Thr irony of the line causes him to laugh, the laughter is very obviously inorganic to the conversation normally)
O God, counterfeit! There was never counterfeit of
passion came so near the life of passion as she
discovers it.
DON PEDRO
Why, what effects of passion shows she?
CLAUDIO
Bait the hook well; this fish will bite.
LEONATO
What effects, my lord? She will sit you, you heard
my daughter tell you how.
CLAUDIO (Smiling, he turns to the audience to deliver the line, then the speech is muted and all you can see are the expressions on them as they sucessfully trick Benedick.
She did, indeed.
9. After the montage of the rest of the convincing ends, the group exits through the right of the stage, and benedick takes center. the lights go down and a spotlight hits him.)
Exeunt DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO
BENEDICK
[Coming forward] This can be no trick: the
conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of
this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady: it
seems her affections have their full bent. Love me!
why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured:
they say I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive
the love come from her; they say too that she will
rather die than give any sign of affection. I did
never think to marry: I must not seem proud: happy
are they that hear their detractions and can put
them to mending. They say the lady is fair; 'tis a
truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; 'tis
so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving
me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor
no great argument of her folly, for I will be
horribly in love with her. I may chance have some
odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me,
because I have railed so long against marriage: but
doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat
in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of
the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?
No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would
die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I
were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day!
she's a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in
her.
BENEDICK
[Coming forward] This can be no trick: the
conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of
this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady: it
seems her affections have their full bent. Love me!
why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured:
they say I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive
the love come from her; they say too that she will
rather die than give any sign of affection. I did
never think to marry: I must not seem proud: happy
are they that hear their detractions and can put
them to mending. They say the lady is fair; 'tis a
truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; 'tis
so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving
me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor
no great argument of her folly, for I will be
horribly in love with her. I may chance have some
odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me,
because I have railed so long against marriage: but
doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat
in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of
the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?
No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would
die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I
were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day!
she's a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in
her.
Enter BEATRICE
BEATRICE
Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.
BENEDICK ( Impulsively)
Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.
BEATRICE (What the heck is going ??)
I took no more pains for those thanks than you take
pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would
not have come.
BENEDICK
You take pleasure then in the message?
BEATRICE (cut it out weirdo)
Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's
point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach,
signior: fare you well.
Exit
BENEDICK
Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in
to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that 'I took
no more pains for those thanks than you took pains
to thank me.' that's as much as to say, Any pains
that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do
not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not
love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture.
Exit
BEATRICE
Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.
BENEDICK ( Impulsively)
Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.
BEATRICE (What the heck is going ??)
I took no more pains for those thanks than you take
pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would
not have come.
BENEDICK
You take pleasure then in the message?
BEATRICE (cut it out weirdo)
Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's
point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach,
signior: fare you well.
Exit
BENEDICK
Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in
to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that 'I took
no more pains for those thanks than you took pains
to thank me.' that's as much as to say, Any pains
that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do
not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not
love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture.
Exit
( He paces ferociously during this speech, he also speaks impulsively, as if every statement is a new discovery that he has made. he uses his hands a lot to show how he is feeling. there is a ton of emotion packed into this speech, he his supposed to be making a big step and like renouncing his ways so make it really big and grand) The curtains draw about 3 seconds after he finishes and jolly fully runs around the stage. The Curtains close on him running around and cheering excitedly)
No comments:
Post a Comment