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A review by graciegrace1178
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
4.0
My favorite Shakespeare read so far!! Starting date estimated. I swear I wrote a review for this already?? Where’d it gO?
PT: Shakespeare/Shakespearean lit, classics reading challenge, classics, books that have been on my TBR for too long
WIL
1) the BANTER. My god??? Beatrice is my hero. Her sharp, sparkling, and often tongue-in-cheek wit is all I aspire towards. IMAGINE BEING SO NATURALLY WITTY.
2) The character duos AKA the variance of relationship dynamics. On the one hand you have Bea and (Bene)dick as the Classic Enemies to Lovers and Fools who suffer pranks at the hands of their friends. They’re just so human and fallible and have such REMARKABLE chemistry. Then on the OTHER hand there’s Hero and Claudio who seem to have a much more temperate case of falling in love with each other at first. Less playful than Beadick’s relationship but perhaps a deeper kind of adoration for each other. I just like that there’s a spectrum of different kinds of relationships here, and the two central relationships are so VASTLY different.
3) Quotes I love:
“in a false quarrel there is no true valor” 5:1:133
“CLAUDIO: That I love her, I feel.
PRINCE: That she is worthy, I know.” 1:1:224
“If not a patient remedy, at least a patient sufferance.” 1:3:8
“Speak low if you speak love” 2:1:97
“Friendship is constant and all other things 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 isn’t an accident of hourly proof, which I mistrusted not. Farewell therefore, Hero.” 2:1:173
“If we can do this, Cupid is no longer an archer; his glory shall be ours, for we are the only love gods. Go in with me, and I will tell you my drift.”
“it is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection. I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more.” 2:3:46
“what fire is in mine ears? Can you speak true? Stand I condemned for pride and scorn so much? Contempt, farewell, and maiden pride, adieu! No glory lives behind the back of such. And Benedick, love on; I will requite thee, taming my wild heart to thy loving hand. If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee to bind our loves up in holy band. For others say thou dost deserve, and I believe it better than reportingly.” 3:2:113
“Conclude, conclude, he is in love” 3:2:57
For when rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.” 3:3:112
“O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!” 4:1:19
“For my part, I am so attired in wonder” 4:1:152
“BENEDICK: I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange?
BEATRICE: as strange as the thing I know not. It was possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you, but believe me not, and yet I lie not, I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing… you have stayed me in a happy hour. I was about to protest I loved you.” 4:1:281
“…Men can counsel and speak comfort to that grief which they themselves not feel, but tasting it, their counsel turns to passion, which before would give preceptial med’cine to rage, fetter strong madness in a silken thread, charm ache with air and agony with words. No, no, ‘tis all men’s office to speak patience to those that wring under the load of sorrow, but no man’s virtue nor sufficiency to be so moral when he shall endure the like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.” 5:1:22
“BENEDICK: And I pray thee now tell me, for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
BEATRICE: For them all together which maintained so politic a state of evil that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.” 5:2:59
“And I do with an eye of love requite her.” 5:4:24
NEUTRAL GROUND
1) I finished this October third, 11:59 PM mere SECONDS before the clock turned to midnight. Ha. That was cool.
2) not explicitly book related but the movie adaptation of this was AWESOME. The Monty Python reference with the horses really got me.
PT: Shakespeare/Shakespearean lit, classics reading challenge, classics, books that have been on my TBR for too long
WIL
1) the BANTER. My god??? Beatrice is my hero. Her sharp, sparkling, and often tongue-in-cheek wit is all I aspire towards. IMAGINE BEING SO NATURALLY WITTY.
2) The character duos AKA the variance of relationship dynamics. On the one hand you have Bea and (Bene)dick as the Classic Enemies to Lovers and Fools who suffer pranks at the hands of their friends. They’re just so human and fallible and have such REMARKABLE chemistry. Then on the OTHER hand there’s Hero and Claudio who seem to have a much more temperate case of falling in love with each other at first. Less playful than Beadick’s relationship but perhaps a deeper kind of adoration for each other. I just like that there’s a spectrum of different kinds of relationships here, and the two central relationships are so VASTLY different.
3) Quotes I love:
“in a false quarrel there is no true valor” 5:1:133
“CLAUDIO: That I love her, I feel.
PRINCE: That she is worthy, I know.” 1:1:224
“If not a patient remedy, at least a patient sufferance.” 1:3:8
“Speak low if you speak love” 2:1:97
“Friendship is constant and all other things 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 isn’t an accident of hourly proof, which I mistrusted not. Farewell therefore, Hero.” 2:1:173
“If we can do this, Cupid is no longer an archer; his glory shall be ours, for we are the only love gods. Go in with me, and I will tell you my drift.”
“it is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection. I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more.” 2:3:46
“what fire is in mine ears? Can you speak true? Stand I condemned for pride and scorn so much? Contempt, farewell, and maiden pride, adieu! No glory lives behind the back of such. And Benedick, love on; I will requite thee, taming my wild heart to thy loving hand. If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee to bind our loves up in holy band. For others say thou dost deserve, and I believe it better than reportingly.” 3:2:113
“Conclude, conclude, he is in love” 3:2:57
For when rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.” 3:3:112
“O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!” 4:1:19
“For my part, I am so attired in wonder” 4:1:152
“BENEDICK: I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange?
BEATRICE: as strange as the thing I know not. It was possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you, but believe me not, and yet I lie not, I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing… you have stayed me in a happy hour. I was about to protest I loved you.” 4:1:281
“…Men can counsel and speak comfort to that grief which they themselves not feel, but tasting it, their counsel turns to passion, which before would give preceptial med’cine to rage, fetter strong madness in a silken thread, charm ache with air and agony with words. No, no, ‘tis all men’s office to speak patience to those that wring under the load of sorrow, but no man’s virtue nor sufficiency to be so moral when he shall endure the like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.” 5:1:22
“BENEDICK: And I pray thee now tell me, for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
BEATRICE: For them all together which maintained so politic a state of evil that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.” 5:2:59
“And I do with an eye of love requite her.” 5:4:24
NEUTRAL GROUND
1) I finished this October third, 11:59 PM mere SECONDS before the clock turned to midnight. Ha. That was cool.
2) not explicitly book related but the movie adaptation of this was AWESOME. The Monty Python reference with the horses really got me.