(to the audience, over the music, shouting) I have been a fool. But now I am a happy fool. And if you do not laugh at me, I shall laugh enough for all of you.
How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?
(to DON PEDRO, loudly) Don Pedro, have you asked Hero?
(He kisses her. She kisses him back. Then she pushes him away.)
(Blackout. The jukebox plays “Don’t You Want Me” by The Human League.) (BENEDICK alone, drinking from a can of beer. He speaks to the audience.)
I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man’s jests. I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace’s garden.
Yes, and a case to put it into. But speak you this with a sad brow? Do you play the flouting Jack? By this light, I would not have her in the penny purse of my heart for anything. Keep yourself warm, Claudio. Get a wife, get a wife.
(They exit. Enter BORACHIO and CONRADE, drunk. BORACHIO sobs.)
Yes. Claudio loves Hero. Don Pedro woos her for him. But what if Hero is not so pure? What if, on the very night before the wedding, a man were to climb into her window?
He shall marry another. My niece – a cousin – who looks exactly like Hero. (He smiles.) My daughter is not dead. She waits inside.
Scratching could not make it worse an ’twere such a face as yours.
(BENEDICK hides. DON PEDRO pretends not to see him.)
(to the audience, over the music, shouting) I have been a fool. But now I am a happy fool. And if you do not laugh at me, I shall laugh enough for all of you.
How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?
(to DON PEDRO, loudly) Don Pedro, have you asked Hero?
(He kisses her. She kisses him back. Then she pushes him away.) Much Ado About Nothing -2011- Wyndham-s Theatre...
(Blackout. The jukebox plays “Don’t You Want Me” by The Human League.) (BENEDICK alone, drinking from a can of beer. He speaks to the audience.)
I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man’s jests. I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace’s garden.
Yes, and a case to put it into. But speak you this with a sad brow? Do you play the flouting Jack? By this light, I would not have her in the penny purse of my heart for anything. Keep yourself warm, Claudio. Get a wife, get a wife. (to the audience, over the music, shouting) I
(They exit. Enter BORACHIO and CONRADE, drunk. BORACHIO sobs.)
Yes. Claudio loves Hero. Don Pedro woos her for him. But what if Hero is not so pure? What if, on the very night before the wedding, a man were to climb into her window?
He shall marry another. My niece – a cousin – who looks exactly like Hero. (He smiles.) My daughter is not dead. She waits inside. How many gentlemen have you lost in this action
Scratching could not make it worse an ’twere such a face as yours.
(BENEDICK hides. DON PEDRO pretends not to see him.)
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