Claudio

• Can the world buy such a jewel
• Take her back again
• She knows the heat of a luxurious bed
• • Traditional "courtly love" relationship with Hero
  • This juxtaposes Beatrice and Benedick's relationship
  • Has expectations of a female
  • He loves Hero until she is viewed as impure (yet men were allowed to do what they wanted)
  • Typical masculine traits
  • within Hero and Claudio's relationship there is a clear power imbalance
  • Hero and Claudio's relationship is very transactional (his power for her beauty and innocence)
• rotten orange
• and knit myself to this approved wanton