I couldn't agree more with you on your description of Dogberry. My first impression of his role was rather humorous. He seems to be a bit scatterbrained from his poor English to his amusing facial expressions. Even with his team's limited skill, they are fortunate enough to unintentionally bring Don John conspiracy to light within the play. Dogberrys reaction to solving crimes is to a certain degree astonishing. Your description of this character gave me an improved representation of Dogberrys significance of his role throughout the play. I also discussed Benedick this week, my view of his character was our day and age bad boy type personality. In the beginning, he uses critical humor to give the audience an appearance of his alpha
male demeanor. Great post this week Jon, I enjoyed reading it.