Much Ado About Nothing (1984 TV) Act 5 Scene 4 Final scene.

"Much Ado About Nothing" - comedy by William Shakespeare.

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Robert Lindsay ... Benedick
Cherie Lunghi ... Beatrice
Lee Montague ... Leonato
Graham Crowden ... Friar Francis
Robert Reynolds ... Claudio
Katharine Levy ... Hero
Pamela Moiseiwitsch ... Margaret
Ishia Bennison ... Ursula

Director: Stuart Burge


Good morrow Benedihe, why what's the matter?
That you haue fuch a Februarie face,
So full of froft, of norme, and clowdinefie


Three comments by Lady Martin ("On Some of Shahespeare' s Female Characters", Edinburgh, 1891):

Lady Martin: (p. 324) Though well pleased that he is no longer required to call his old freind to account, Benedick take care to show, by his coldness and reserve, that he considers their behaviour to have been unjustifiable, even had the story been true which Don John had beguiled them into believing. When the Prince rallies him about his ' February face,' he makes no rejoinder. But when Claudio, with infinite bad taste, at a moment when his mind should have been full of the gravest thoughts, attacks him in the same spirit, Benedick turns upon him with caustic severity. The entrance of Hero, with her ladies, masked, arrests what might have grown into hot words.

Lady Martin: (p. 325) : Hero accepts Claudio with a ready forgiveness, which, I feel very sure, Beatrice's self-respect, under similar circumstances, would not have permitted her to grant. Such treatment as Claudio' s would have chilled all love within her. She would never have trusted as her husband the man who had allowed himself to be so easily deceived, and who had openly shamed her before the world. Hero, altogether a feebler nature, neither looks so far into the future, nor feels so intensely what has happened in the past.

Lady Martin: (p. 325) : To my thinking, Hero's prospect of lasting happiness with the credulous and vacillating Claudio is somewhat doubtful. I have no misgivings about the future happiness of Benedick and Beatrice, even although they learn how they have been misled into thinking that each was dying for the other, and up to the moment of going to the altar keep up their witty struggles to turn the tables on each other.

... In this last encounter, Beatrice, as usual, has the best of it, but Benedick is too happy to care for such defeat. He knows that he has won her heart, and that it is a heart of gold. He can therefore well afford to smile at the epigrams of ' a college of wit-crackers,' and the quotation against himself of his former smart sayings about lovers and married men. His home, I doubt not, will be a happy one, — all the happier because Beatrice and he have each a strong individuality, with fine spirits and busy brains, which will keep life from stagnating.

They will always be finding out something new and interesting in each other's character. As for Beatrice, at least, one feels sure that Benedick will have a great deal to discover and to admire in her as he grows to know her better. She will prove the fitness of her name as Beatrice (the giver of happiness), and he will be glad to confess himself blest indeed (Benedictus), in having won her.




Claudio and Hero marry and all is resolved (SATS 2008)

'Did I not tell you she was innocent?'

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'Strike up, pipers!'

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[Prosewood]

Thank you ever so much for uploading this version. I simply adore it! Would it be possibly for you to upload the missing parts as well? I'd be eternally grateful :).

[Concetta20]

SO CUTE!

[zalmatheavatar12]

grrr i wish this Beatrice and Benedick could've done the movie with Robert Sean Leonard and Kate Beckinsdale!!! Robert Reynolds as Claudio is.....well i don't want to sound mean and say he makes Claudio look dim-witted and slow but.....no that pretty much covers it. And the other Hero looks much prettier, no offense to this actress.

[SixStringsofSteel]

Wow, watching this was a lot easier than reading it. Too bad there are so many missing pieces.

[vojta80]

Great.......of course this is from Royal Shakespeare Company/ Serie done by BBC!

OH they had there so great actors like Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud or Anthony Hopkins.......Just great!!!!! Thank you for posting this!!!

[Lily21043]

"Peace now stop your mouth! " lol

[PlaceCoolUsername]

Everytime I watch it I can't help but to be all smiles!

[B0l33]

lol! yup :)

[HannahC94]

lol cool. I can see you are a pretty big fan of Kenneth Branagh :P

[B0l33]

Robert Reynolds is good looking O_o

[B0l33]

the version by kenneth branagh is pretty good too! :)