![]() ![]() Beatrice and Benedick, writes scholar Penny Gay, “refuse to abide by the conventions of genteel decorum, they know their own minds (or think they do), they are not particularly respectful of authority … and they are the couple who talk, and bicker, endlessly-thus displaying to each other their intellectual energy and their compatibility.” Hollywood has remanufactured this story a thousand times, most memorably in the screwball comedies of Howard Hawks (e.g. ![]() The antecedent of this bickering, insulting relationship between a seemingly unsuited pair of lovers is the story of Beatrice and Benedick from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
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