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I wanted help understanding this play. I couldn’t quite get it from reading it, and the only production I’ve seen of it, a forty-five minute version, while very helpful and fun, wasn’t quite the real thing, nor was it put on by high-powered, professional players. The first time I saw it (before seeing that forty-five minute production) I stopped watching it after a bit. Then a trusted friend told me it was a good movie/production, so I tried again.
High artistic values throughout, and I now agree with my friend. I still find myself not as in love with the play and its heroine as I am with Twelfth Night and Viola. Beatrice seems narrower and less vulnerable than Viola is. And our sympathy is split between Beatrice and Hero, who has the most powerful, play-climaxing reconciliation scene. However, the intensity of relationships, the plot tension, the humor, and the language (the lines unfolding like flowers, one after another, forever and forever) are all there.
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