Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 1993
Much Ado About Nothing: movie monologues to shadow
14 monologues from Much Ado About Nothing. Original audio, one line at a time, with a pause to say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
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- B24 lines
That a woman conceived me, I thank her.
A bachelor's vowMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He thanks the woman who bore him, then turns his refusal of marriage into a final, almost religious vow. - C17 lines
My lord, when you went onward on this ended action,
Claudio's confessionMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He traces his feeling from a soldier's glance to a room full of desires, admitting the truth without a single boast. - C15 lines
I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace!
A villain's confessionMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He moves from a weed image to open threats, turning spite into something like a creed. - C16 lines
She told me, not thinking I had been myself,
Benedick railing at BeatriceMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993The complaint keeps escalating from daggers to poison air, each image more absurd than the last. - C121 lines
I do much wonder
Benedick lists his conditionsMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He mocks lovers, then lists impossible conditions, and the final clause quietly admits he is not immune. - C121 lines
This can be no trick.
Benedick talks himself into loveMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He argues down his own resistance step by step, and the joke is that he never stands a chance. - C18 lines
What fire is in mine ears?
Beatrice gives up her prideMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993She moves from wounded pride to open surrender, and every line lowers her guard a little more. - C17 lines
She dying, as it must be so maintained,
The friar's planMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He lays out a lie as if it were mercy, and the calm delivery is what persuades them. - B25 lines
Oh, that I were a man!
Beatrice's outburstMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993She climbs from self-pity to raw revenge, and the sudden stop makes it land. - B26 lines
You are a villain. I jest not.
Benedick's challengeMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993Polite thanks, a flat accusation, a formal challenge, then goodbye - all without raising his voice. - B27 lines
I have deceived even your very eyes.
Borachio's confessionMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He confesses in plain order, and the calm inventory is what makes it chilling. - B210 lines
I cannot bid you bid my daughter live. That were impossible.
Leonato's termsMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He removes the impossible demand and then lays out terms that grief can actually accept. - C112 lines
I mean in singing, but in loving,
no rhyme for loveMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He runs through famous lovers only to mock his own clumsy tongue, building a stand-up rhythm. - C15 lines
Signior Leonato, truth it is, good signior, your niece regards me with an eye of favour.
Benedick's proposalMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He circles the request in courtly turns, and the formality betrays how serious he is.