Much Ado About Nothing: Act IV, Scene I
By Izzy
Rated PG13
Nothing much to say this time. The g-boys & co. do not belong to me. Neither does the play. On with the show.
IZZY: This act is 11 pages long, the first scene being nine pages. Let's just do both because of the shortness of the second scene. A lot of people are in the first scene. Let's see ... *looks down at script* Wufei, Trowa, Treize, Quatre, Duo, Heero, Hilde, and Relena. Okay? Everyone on stage! Act IV, scene I: a church. Action!
TREIZE/LEONATO: Come, Friar Francis, be brief.
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: You come here, lord, to marry this lady.
DUO/CLAUDIO: No.
TREIZE/LEONATO: To be married to her: friar, you come to marry her.
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: Lady, you come to be married to this count.
HILDE/HERO: I do.
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: If either of you know any impediment who you should not be joined, I charge you to speak it.
DUO/CLAUDIO: Do you know any, Hero?
HILDE/HERO: None, my lord.
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: How about you, count?
TREIZE/LEONATO: I dare make his answer: none.
DUO/CLAUDIO: Stand by, friar. Father: Will you with a free and unconstrained soul give me this maid, your daughter?
TREIZE/LEONATO: As freely as God did give her me.
DUO/CLAUDIO: And what do I have to give back?
TREIZE/LEONATO: Nothing.
DUO/CLAUDIO: Leonato, take her back again. Behold how like a maid she blushes here! What authority and show of truth can cunning sin cover itself! She knows the heat of a luxurious bed; her blush is guiltiness not modesty.
TREIZE/LEONATO: What do you mean, lord?
DUO/CLAUDIO: I wish not to be married.
TREIZE/LEONATO: Sweet prince, why do you not speak?
WUFEI/DON PEDRO: Why should I speak? I stand dishonored.
TREIZE/LEONATO: Are these things spoken?
WUFEI/DON PEDRO: Spoken and true.
HEERO/BENEDICK: This doesn't look like a wedding.
DUO: *breaking character* Duh!!!!
IZZY: Back off Duo. Keep on going.
HILDE/HERO: True? Oh God!
DUO/CLAUDIO: What man talked with you yesterday at your window between twelve and one.
HILDE/HERO: I talked with no man at that hour.
WUFEI/DON PEDRO: Leonato, I am sorry that you must hear: upon my honor, myself, my brother and this greived count did see her, hear her at that hour with a ruffian at her chamber-window; who has indeed, most like a villain, confessed the vile encounters they have had a thousand times in secret.
HILDE/HERO: *swoons*
RELENA/BEATRICE: How now, cousin! What sinks you down?
TROWA/DON JOHN: Come, let us go.
IZZY: Exit Wufei, Trowa and Duo.
HEERO/BENEDICK: How is the lady.
RELENA/BEATRICE: Dead, I think. Help uncle! Hero! why Hero! Uncle! signior Benedick! Friar! How now, cousin Hero!
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: Have comfort, lady.
TREIZE/LEONATO: Do not live, Hero; do not open your eyes: For I did think you would not die quickly.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Sir, sir, be patient.
RELENA/BEATRICE: On my soul, my cousin is belied!
HEERO/BENEDICK: Were you her bedfellow last night?
RELENA/BEATRICE: No, althought, until last night, I have for twelve months been her bedfellow.
TREIZE/LEONATO: Would the two princes and Count Claudio lie? Let her die.
DUO: *interrupting yet again* Why does her own father want her to die?
IZZY: BECAUSE! He doesn't want to live with the dishonor, you moron!
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: Hear me; I have noticed a thousand blushings and in her eye there has appeared a fire, to burn the errors that these princes hold against her maiden truth. Lady, what man are you accused of?
HILDE/HERO: I know none.
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: There is some strange misprison in the princes.
HEERO/BENEDICK: They have the very bent of honor; the practice of it lies in Don John.
TREIZE/LEONATO: If they speak truth of her, these hands shall tell her; if they wrong her honor, they proudest of them shall hear of it.
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: Pause awhile, and let me counsel you. The princes left your daughter here for dead: let here be secretly be kept in and publish that she is dead. Maintain a mourning ostentation, and hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites that appertain unto a burial.
TREIZE/LEONATO: What shall become of this?
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: This shall be on her behalf. It will fare with Claudio: when he shall hear she died upon his words, the idea of her lie shall sweetly creep into his study of imagination; and every lovely organ of her life shall come in more precious habit than when she lived; then he shall mourn and wished he had not accused her so. The supposition of the lady's death will quench the wonder of her infamy.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Signior Leonato, let the friar advise you. I will deal in this.
QUATRE/FRIAR: Come, Lady Hero, die to live.
IZZY: Great! Everyone exits except for Benedick and Beatrice.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?
RELENA/BEATRICE: Yes and I will weep a while longer.
HEERO/BENEDICK: I will not desire that.
RELENA/BEATRICE: You have no reason; I do it freely.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged.
RELENA/BEATRICE: How much the man should deserve of me that righted her!
HEERO/BENEDICK: Is there any way to show such friendship?
RELENA/BEATRICE: A very even way, but no such friend.
HEERO/BENEDICK: May a man do it?
RELENA/BEATRICE: It is a man's office, but not yours.
HEERO/BENEDICK: *deep breath in* I do love nothing in the world so well as you: isn't that strange?
RELENA/BEATRICE: It were as possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you: but do not believe me; and yet I do not lie; I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.
HEERO/BENEDICK: By my sword, Beatrice, I swear you love me.
RELENA/BEATRICE: Do not swear and eat it.
HEERO/BENEDICK: I will swear by it that you love me; and I will make him eat it that says I do not love you.
RELENA/BEATRICE: Will you not eat your word?
HEERO/BEATRICE: I protest I love you.
RELENA/BEATRICE: Why, then, God forgive me!
HEERO/BENEDICK: What offense, sweet Beatrice?
RELENA/BEATRICE: You have stayed with me in a happy hour: I was about to protest I loved you.
HEERO/BENEDICK: And do it with all your heart.
RELENA/BEATRICE: I love you with so much of my heart, that none is left to protest.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Come, bid me do anything for you.
RELENA/BEATRICE: Kill Claudio.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Ha! not for the wide world.
RELENA/BEATRICE: You kill me to deny it. Farewell.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Wait, sweet Beatrice.
RELENA/BEATRICE: I am gone though I am here: there is no love in you: please, let me go.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Beatrice-
RELENA/BEATRICE: I will go.
HEERO/BENEDICK: We'll be friends first.
RELENA/BEATRICE: You dare to be friends with me than fight with my enemy.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Is Claudio your enemy?
RELENA/BEATRICE: Did he not dishonor my kinswoman? O that I were a man! O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market place.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Hear me, Beatrice-
RELENA/BEATRICE: Talk with a man out a window! A proper saying!
HEERO/BENEDICK: No, but, Beatrice-
RELENA/BEATRICE: Sweet Hero! She is wronged!
HEERO/BENEDICK: Beat-
RELENA/BEATRICE: O that I were a man for his sake! I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Wait, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love you.
RELENA/BEATRICE: Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Do you think in your sould that Count Claudio has wronged Hero?
RELENA/BEATRICE: Yes, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.
HEERO/BENEDICK: I will challenge him. I will kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand, Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you hear of me, so think of me. Go, comfort your cousin: I must say she is dead: and so, farewell.
IZZY: That was wonderful guys. I could barely tell you were acting.
DUO: *bust up laughing*
SAILOR NEPTUNE: What is it this time?
DUO: They *giggle* fogged up the *giggle* windows!
EVERYONE: *busts up laughing*
IZZY: Okay, Okay. Let's not make fun of them. Just because they fogged up the-
EVERYONE: *laughs harder*
IZZY: OKAY, OKAY. They get the picture. Everyone, forget the second scene. I'll see you tomorrow.
Hey! I wanted to copy a little note from the script. It's about Beatrice:
First performed in 1598, Much Ado About Nothing focuses on the love story of Claudio and Hero, but the volatile relationship between Beatrice and Benedick is much more compelling. Critic Dover Wilson calls Beatrice "the first woman in [English] literature ... who not only has a brain, but delights in the constant employment of it." Her sharp wit leads her to wage a war of words with Benedick, supplying much of the comic energy of the play. But when Hero is cruelly wronged by Claudio, Beatrice's wit and intelligence cannot defend her cousin's reputation; outraged at such injustice, she can only exclaim, "O God, that I were a man!" and convince Benedick to challenge Claudio. Though the couples are united in a conventionally comic ending, Much Ado About Nothing goes much deeper in exploring the tensions between the sexes in a society where female chastity is equated with virtue, and that virtue serves as the measure of a woman's worth.
Well, what did ya think? I've gotta go. It's getting late.
Izzy-chan
By Izzy
Rated PG13
Nothing much to say this time. The g-boys & co. do not belong to me. Neither does the play. On with the show.
IZZY: This act is 11 pages long, the first scene being nine pages. Let's just do both because of the shortness of the second scene. A lot of people are in the first scene. Let's see ... *looks down at script* Wufei, Trowa, Treize, Quatre, Duo, Heero, Hilde, and Relena. Okay? Everyone on stage! Act IV, scene I: a church. Action!
TREIZE/LEONATO: Come, Friar Francis, be brief.
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: You come here, lord, to marry this lady.
DUO/CLAUDIO: No.
TREIZE/LEONATO: To be married to her: friar, you come to marry her.
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: Lady, you come to be married to this count.
HILDE/HERO: I do.
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: If either of you know any impediment who you should not be joined, I charge you to speak it.
DUO/CLAUDIO: Do you know any, Hero?
HILDE/HERO: None, my lord.
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: How about you, count?
TREIZE/LEONATO: I dare make his answer: none.
DUO/CLAUDIO: Stand by, friar. Father: Will you with a free and unconstrained soul give me this maid, your daughter?
TREIZE/LEONATO: As freely as God did give her me.
DUO/CLAUDIO: And what do I have to give back?
TREIZE/LEONATO: Nothing.
DUO/CLAUDIO: Leonato, take her back again. Behold how like a maid she blushes here! What authority and show of truth can cunning sin cover itself! She knows the heat of a luxurious bed; her blush is guiltiness not modesty.
TREIZE/LEONATO: What do you mean, lord?
DUO/CLAUDIO: I wish not to be married.
TREIZE/LEONATO: Sweet prince, why do you not speak?
WUFEI/DON PEDRO: Why should I speak? I stand dishonored.
TREIZE/LEONATO: Are these things spoken?
WUFEI/DON PEDRO: Spoken and true.
HEERO/BENEDICK: This doesn't look like a wedding.
DUO: *breaking character* Duh!!!!
IZZY: Back off Duo. Keep on going.
HILDE/HERO: True? Oh God!
DUO/CLAUDIO: What man talked with you yesterday at your window between twelve and one.
HILDE/HERO: I talked with no man at that hour.
WUFEI/DON PEDRO: Leonato, I am sorry that you must hear: upon my honor, myself, my brother and this greived count did see her, hear her at that hour with a ruffian at her chamber-window; who has indeed, most like a villain, confessed the vile encounters they have had a thousand times in secret.
HILDE/HERO: *swoons*
RELENA/BEATRICE: How now, cousin! What sinks you down?
TROWA/DON JOHN: Come, let us go.
IZZY: Exit Wufei, Trowa and Duo.
HEERO/BENEDICK: How is the lady.
RELENA/BEATRICE: Dead, I think. Help uncle! Hero! why Hero! Uncle! signior Benedick! Friar! How now, cousin Hero!
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: Have comfort, lady.
TREIZE/LEONATO: Do not live, Hero; do not open your eyes: For I did think you would not die quickly.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Sir, sir, be patient.
RELENA/BEATRICE: On my soul, my cousin is belied!
HEERO/BENEDICK: Were you her bedfellow last night?
RELENA/BEATRICE: No, althought, until last night, I have for twelve months been her bedfellow.
TREIZE/LEONATO: Would the two princes and Count Claudio lie? Let her die.
DUO: *interrupting yet again* Why does her own father want her to die?
IZZY: BECAUSE! He doesn't want to live with the dishonor, you moron!
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: Hear me; I have noticed a thousand blushings and in her eye there has appeared a fire, to burn the errors that these princes hold against her maiden truth. Lady, what man are you accused of?
HILDE/HERO: I know none.
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: There is some strange misprison in the princes.
HEERO/BENEDICK: They have the very bent of honor; the practice of it lies in Don John.
TREIZE/LEONATO: If they speak truth of her, these hands shall tell her; if they wrong her honor, they proudest of them shall hear of it.
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: Pause awhile, and let me counsel you. The princes left your daughter here for dead: let here be secretly be kept in and publish that she is dead. Maintain a mourning ostentation, and hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites that appertain unto a burial.
TREIZE/LEONATO: What shall become of this?
QUATRE/FRIAR FRANCIS: This shall be on her behalf. It will fare with Claudio: when he shall hear she died upon his words, the idea of her lie shall sweetly creep into his study of imagination; and every lovely organ of her life shall come in more precious habit than when she lived; then he shall mourn and wished he had not accused her so. The supposition of the lady's death will quench the wonder of her infamy.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Signior Leonato, let the friar advise you. I will deal in this.
QUATRE/FRIAR: Come, Lady Hero, die to live.
IZZY: Great! Everyone exits except for Benedick and Beatrice.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?
RELENA/BEATRICE: Yes and I will weep a while longer.
HEERO/BENEDICK: I will not desire that.
RELENA/BEATRICE: You have no reason; I do it freely.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged.
RELENA/BEATRICE: How much the man should deserve of me that righted her!
HEERO/BENEDICK: Is there any way to show such friendship?
RELENA/BEATRICE: A very even way, but no such friend.
HEERO/BENEDICK: May a man do it?
RELENA/BEATRICE: It is a man's office, but not yours.
HEERO/BENEDICK: *deep breath in* I do love nothing in the world so well as you: isn't that strange?
RELENA/BEATRICE: It were as possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you: but do not believe me; and yet I do not lie; I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.
HEERO/BENEDICK: By my sword, Beatrice, I swear you love me.
RELENA/BEATRICE: Do not swear and eat it.
HEERO/BENEDICK: I will swear by it that you love me; and I will make him eat it that says I do not love you.
RELENA/BEATRICE: Will you not eat your word?
HEERO/BEATRICE: I protest I love you.
RELENA/BEATRICE: Why, then, God forgive me!
HEERO/BENEDICK: What offense, sweet Beatrice?
RELENA/BEATRICE: You have stayed with me in a happy hour: I was about to protest I loved you.
HEERO/BENEDICK: And do it with all your heart.
RELENA/BEATRICE: I love you with so much of my heart, that none is left to protest.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Come, bid me do anything for you.
RELENA/BEATRICE: Kill Claudio.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Ha! not for the wide world.
RELENA/BEATRICE: You kill me to deny it. Farewell.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Wait, sweet Beatrice.
RELENA/BEATRICE: I am gone though I am here: there is no love in you: please, let me go.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Beatrice-
RELENA/BEATRICE: I will go.
HEERO/BENEDICK: We'll be friends first.
RELENA/BEATRICE: You dare to be friends with me than fight with my enemy.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Is Claudio your enemy?
RELENA/BEATRICE: Did he not dishonor my kinswoman? O that I were a man! O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market place.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Hear me, Beatrice-
RELENA/BEATRICE: Talk with a man out a window! A proper saying!
HEERO/BENEDICK: No, but, Beatrice-
RELENA/BEATRICE: Sweet Hero! She is wronged!
HEERO/BENEDICK: Beat-
RELENA/BEATRICE: O that I were a man for his sake! I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Wait, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love you.
RELENA/BEATRICE: Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.
HEERO/BENEDICK: Do you think in your sould that Count Claudio has wronged Hero?
RELENA/BEATRICE: Yes, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.
HEERO/BENEDICK: I will challenge him. I will kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand, Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you hear of me, so think of me. Go, comfort your cousin: I must say she is dead: and so, farewell.
IZZY: That was wonderful guys. I could barely tell you were acting.
DUO: *bust up laughing*
SAILOR NEPTUNE: What is it this time?
DUO: They *giggle* fogged up the *giggle* windows!
EVERYONE: *busts up laughing*
IZZY: Okay, Okay. Let's not make fun of them. Just because they fogged up the-
EVERYONE: *laughs harder*
IZZY: OKAY, OKAY. They get the picture. Everyone, forget the second scene. I'll see you tomorrow.
Hey! I wanted to copy a little note from the script. It's about Beatrice:
First performed in 1598, Much Ado About Nothing focuses on the love story of Claudio and Hero, but the volatile relationship between Beatrice and Benedick is much more compelling. Critic Dover Wilson calls Beatrice "the first woman in [English] literature ... who not only has a brain, but delights in the constant employment of it." Her sharp wit leads her to wage a war of words with Benedick, supplying much of the comic energy of the play. But when Hero is cruelly wronged by Claudio, Beatrice's wit and intelligence cannot defend her cousin's reputation; outraged at such injustice, she can only exclaim, "O God, that I were a man!" and convince Benedick to challenge Claudio. Though the couples are united in a conventionally comic ending, Much Ado About Nothing goes much deeper in exploring the tensions between the sexes in a society where female chastity is equated with virtue, and that virtue serves as the measure of a woman's worth.
Well, what did ya think? I've gotta go. It's getting late.
Izzy-chan