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  • Today, I got Perceval out of a nice swim in a radioactive river and ruined Benedick's breakfast.

    and those who choose to stay will live just one more day ckd 2009

  • Beatrice and Benedick's verbal sparring in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a precursor to freestyle rap - or at least, it's easy to think so after watching the Q Brothers' remix of the Bard's barbed romcom.

    Funk It Up About Nothin' - review 2011

  • Also, writing fight scenes from Benedick's POV is kind of weird and distancy, because he just doesn't get upset about them, or even particularly interested.

    "I wonder if this place was ever nice." matociquala 2008

  • In Much Ado About Nothing, the feisty Beatrice reflects on losing Benedick's heart: "Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it."

    Shakespeare on Games 2008

  • In Much Ado About Nothing, the feisty Beatrice reflects on losing Benedick's heart: "Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it."

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • What accounts for the fluctuations in Benedick's personality, such as when he gives his son and daughter each a smack [p. 57] and when he buys them fourteen pairs of shoes [pp. 253-254]?

    In A Dark Wood by Amanda Craig: Questions 2002

  • How does Benedick's illness manifest itself physicallyespecially after he arrives in America?

    In A Dark Wood by Amanda Craig: Questions 2002

  • Is Benedick's statement that "everyone needs a story" just the artist speaking, or is he expressing a universal truth?

    In A Dark Wood by Amanda Craig: Questions 2002

  • Is Benedick's earlier statement symptomatic of a man recently divorced or of a manic depressive or both?

    In A Dark Wood by Amanda Craig: Questions 2002

  • How could Benedick's relationship with his children be characterized?

    In A Dark Wood by Amanda Craig: Questions 2002

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