[This actor] plays him as a crusty, prickly, professional bachelor of the old school, ostentatiously middle-aged, who has learnt that being self-contained is the better part of valour and now quite enjoys being grumpy.

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Credit
J.P, The Sunday Times
Date
2002
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©

[Benedick] commands attention by a kind of controlled eccentricity.

Act and Scene
Credit
Gareth Lloyd Evans, The Guardian
Date
1968
Copyright
©

... a confident Bendick, his warmth contrasting with the rest of Don Pedro’s companions.

Act and Scene
Credit
Jill Parkin, Yorkshire Post
Date
1988
Copyright
©

Benedick at one stage playing straight to the gallery like a veteran music hall comic...

Act and Scene
Credit
Peter Whitehouse, Sunday Mercury
Date
1976
Copyright
©

At first Benedick seems to adopt a slight effeminacy to protect him from the monstrous regiment of women, but this discovery and recognition of love brings out a natural masculinity.

Act and Scene
Credit
Gareth Lloyd Evans, Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
Date
1982
Copyright
©

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