I love Much Ado About Nothing because everytime I revisit it there's a new aspect that catches my eye and does not let me go. This time it's gender and power, esp. gender roles and constraints. The way Beatrice does not speak up until the very end of the church scene, how she cannot defend her cousin by herself, how Benedick might help but there are no connections between the two of them that might justify such actions. She can do nothing in this case but plead. Of course she asks him to kill Claudio once they admit their love and gets (rightfully?) angry when Benedick declines in the beginning
















