Much Ado About Nothing Act 4 Scene 1 - Beatrice Monologue

Katie Flanagan - Much Ado About Nothing IV. i., Beatrice

[michalatyner]

YES! Finally, a Beatrice that shows not only anger, or disbelief, but protectiveness and realism! I am in love with your portrayal of her!

[adalyneva]

I’m doing this monologue for my acting class and omg idk what it is but you’re so captivating. Like seriously love the take you did on this piece 🙌💗

[royalecookie]

Script: Kill Claudio! You kill me to deny it. Farewell. I am gone, though I am
here: there is no love in you: nay, I pray you, let me go. In faith, I will go. You
dare easier be friends with me than fight with my enemy. Is Claudio not
approved in the height a villain, that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured
my kinswoman? O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they
come to take hands ; and then, with public accusation, uncovered slander, 
unmitigated rancour, – O, God that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the
market-place. Talk with a man out at window! A proper saying! Sweet Hero!
She is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone. Princes and counties!
Surely, a princely testimony, a goodly count, Count Comfect; a sweet
gallant surely! O that I were a man for his sake! Or that I had any friend
would be a man for my sake! But manhood is melted into courtesies, valour
into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too :
he is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot
be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.