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Day 26: Your favorite couple
Aug. 16th, 2010 10:04 pmBenedick / Beatrice, natch. Why is this even a question?
In an effort to say something vaguely different from what everyone else will say, I will note that Antony and Cleopatra are a close second; I have a soft spot for Viola and Orsino, even though nobody else seems to like Orsino very much, because the guy-bonding scenes and all the stuff he inadvertently reveals during them are adorable; an equally soft spot for Florizel and Perdita, who are prepared to give up the world for each other and charmingly unconscious of all the weighty thematic stuff that's riding on their union; and having just (finally!) watched the Globe production of Love's Labour's Lost, I'm prepared to get equally giddy over Berowne / Rosaline and Ferdinand / Princess. (There will be more LLL-love tomorrow, because really, how can you talk about couplets WITHOUT talking about that play?)
But yeah, B&B will always be my first choice, because they're so sharp and witty and relentlessly skeptical, and because they both want to see Hero vindicated even if it costs them their own shot at happiness. And because part of me will always be eighteen years old with a mad crush on Kenneth Branagh, and absurdly excited about watching the movie in the basement of the English building and hanging out with other people who felt exactly the same way. (OK, I think this is the play that reminds me of the good parts of my freshman year of college, in the same way that Troilus and Cressida reminds me of the more difficult parts, and all of this is thoroughly idiosyncratic and doesn't have anything to do with the couple at all.) But anyway. How can you not love "Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably"?
( All the questions )
In an effort to say something vaguely different from what everyone else will say, I will note that Antony and Cleopatra are a close second; I have a soft spot for Viola and Orsino, even though nobody else seems to like Orsino very much, because the guy-bonding scenes and all the stuff he inadvertently reveals during them are adorable; an equally soft spot for Florizel and Perdita, who are prepared to give up the world for each other and charmingly unconscious of all the weighty thematic stuff that's riding on their union; and having just (finally!) watched the Globe production of Love's Labour's Lost, I'm prepared to get equally giddy over Berowne / Rosaline and Ferdinand / Princess. (There will be more LLL-love tomorrow, because really, how can you talk about couplets WITHOUT talking about that play?)
But yeah, B&B will always be my first choice, because they're so sharp and witty and relentlessly skeptical, and because they both want to see Hero vindicated even if it costs them their own shot at happiness. And because part of me will always be eighteen years old with a mad crush on Kenneth Branagh, and absurdly excited about watching the movie in the basement of the English building and hanging out with other people who felt exactly the same way. (OK, I think this is the play that reminds me of the good parts of my freshman year of college, in the same way that Troilus and Cressida reminds me of the more difficult parts, and all of this is thoroughly idiosyncratic and doesn't have anything to do with the couple at all.) But anyway. How can you not love "Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably"?
( All the questions )
