Posted on May 8, 2012
Hello loyal subscribers and first time visitors!
If you missed my earlier post, this week I’ve created a little game for you to play at home: you try to match up the songs that express a fictional character’s personality with the events that happen to him/her through the course of play. Yesterday I posted a playlist for Benedick from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, and today I’m going to post one for Beatrice. Your mission is to read the events that happen to Beatrice below, and figure out which songs on the playlist below correspond to these events. If you want to suggest more songs, please leave a comment below and I’ll create an extended playlist for the end of the week! I’ll also post the correct results so you can see how well you did. Enjoy the game and, as Shakespeare said: “Play on!”
Paul Rycik 5/9/12
Events For Beatrice (Match these with the songs from the playlist below)
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Benedick and Beatrice have a brief fling and break up before the play begins
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Beatrice sees Benedick again at Leonato’s house and blows a flurry of words at him.
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Beatrice advises Hero not to worry about her wedding, but instead tells her to “Dance out your answer.”
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Beatrice dances with Benedick and pretends not to recognize him.
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Beatrice overhears Margaret, Hero, and Ursula ‘secretly confessing’ Benedick’s love for Beatrice.
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Beatrice is thunderstruck to discover that not only does Benedick love her, she loves him.
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Beatrice is furious at Claudio’s treatment of Hero, and the way men in general treat women.
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Beatrice challenges Benedick to prove his love to her by killing Claudio
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After soul searching and after Benedick challenges Claudio, Beatrice is on the mend.
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Having proved his worthiness to her like a chivalric soldier, Beatrice marries Benedick.
The Shakespearean Student 