Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing

Complete the tables to show you understand how Shakespeare portrays these two key characters in these two extracts, to show you can quote to support your points and to show you can comment on the language and stagecraft Shakespeare employs.

Claudio
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In this first extract, Claudio seems tentative and shy.
He seeks Benedick's approval for his love of Hero in rather embarrassed way, asking, for example, "Is she not a modest young lady?"
It seems that Claudio is embarrassed because as soldiers he and Benedick may have scorned love and the company of women. Things have changed, and now, of all things, it is Hero's "modesty" which Claudio so admires: the most feminine side of her.
Claudio is 'love-struck'.
"Can the world buy such a jewel?"
"I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the contrary, if Hero would be my wife."
In the second half of this extract, it is significant that Claudio says very little, suggesting his mind is elsewhere and that he finds it difficult to put his love into words.
"That I love her, I feel."
In the second extract, Claudio is much more confident. Now that Hero is his girlfriend, he can concentrate on making fun of his friend Benedick.
"Stalk on, stalk on; the fowl sits."
"Hero thinks she [Beatrice] will surely die" of love for Benedick.
Benedick
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"Would you have me speak after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?"
Benedick is cynical about love.
"Would you buy her, that you inquire after her?"
Despite his bluster, Benedick gives away to the audience that he has a liking for Beatrice.
Benedick thinks it is better for men to grow old without having married.
It is possible that Benedick is trying to persuade not Claudio but himself that he doesn't want to marry: we have already seen how he thinks Beatrice is beautiful. Some people will think that Benedick's exuberance - he's full of word-play and fun - is a way of hiding his feelings for Beatrice.
Benedick is easily fooled my his friends.
"This can be no trick: the conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of this from Hero."
 
"I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage."
  
It is funny how quickly Benedick abandons his former beliefs.
    
Benedick, when he sees Beatrice now, quickly convinces himself that she really does love him.
    
Some productions of the play have Beatrice behaving in her usual fiery way towards Benedick here: but now, instead of being stung into a witty reply, he is love-struck and sees only Beatrice's feminine beauty.