"Much Ado About Nothing" Head Canon

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I saw Kenneth Branagh’s “Much Ado About Nothing” in the theater (1993) and it’s taken me this long to suddenly develop the head canon* that “Sigh No More,” -- which Branagh placed at the very beginning of the movie, read by Beatrice to the household -- was *written* by Beatrice, about Benedict. But no one knows it’s about him. The book she’s holding is her very own “slim book of verse,” and it’s full of witty poems, many of them about the pitfalls and fallacies of love.


* For the non-fandom folks: head canon is a term which refers to a belief a person develops about a book/movie/comic/etc that can't be proven or disproven by the official material.

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Here's the song, for those unfamiliar with the poem

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Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no more
Of dumps so dull and heavy.
The fraud of men was ever so
Since summer first was leafy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey, nonny, nonny.