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At Friar Patrick’s Cell [Shakespeare For You]

🎭 Eglamour:  where shall I meet you?  

Silvia:  At friar Patrick’s cell, where I intend holy confession.

— Eglamour & Silvia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 4-3

[ACTING TIPS]

Two people secretly meet at Friar’s cell.  She wants to escape from her house, and the man (Sir Eglamour) is helping her.

The context is different from Romeo & Juliet, who meet at Friar’s cell to get married, but I am amazed the similar situation Shakespeare uses.  “For holy confession” is also suggested by Nurse:  “Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?” 

Perhaps Shakespeare liked the idea of secret meeting at a Friar’s cell; perhaps he himself met his future wife Ann Hathaway at a Friar’s cell; or perhaps a Friar’s cell was the only safe place for young unmarried couple to exchange their love, at that era.

To play Eglamour here, I would be much worried, but wants to help her seriously.

To play Silvia here, I would be very excited and believe my own idea to meet at the Friar’s cell is the very good idea.

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