Benedick
Bene- Latin for 'well' or 'good'
Dick- Aside from the obvious meaning, dick can also mean 'lad', from a 21st Century view Benedick is a "lad" with his rude jokes and views on women with regards to sex.
A clever dick is a person who is obnoxiously opinionated or a self-satisfied know it all, Benedick is certainly full of himself: 'I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted'
Benedict(a popular name for Popes): "Blessed"- is Benedick blessed?......He finds his perfect woman and has friends willing to spend time to make him realise this? Blessed also refers to someone who is happy.
Saint Benedict of Nursia- Italy
Perhaps it was just a popular name in Italy...
Beatrice
a symbolic figure developed from the person whom Dante (A major Italian poet of the Middle Ages) first saw as a child and loved as an ideal of womanhood.
from a Latin word meaning "one who brings joy"
associated with the Latin word beatus, meaning "blessed" or "happy" . -Same as Benedict
Beau: Beauty or masculine
Claudio
lame- Very fickle in his love for Hero, falls in and out of love quickly.
Disabled
Appears crippled at the death of Hero
Hero
A priestess of Aphrodite (Greek Goddess of Love) who drowned herself after her lover Leander drowned- Hero is desparately in love with Claudio, like the priestess or Juliet she would probably kill herself to be with him.
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