🎭 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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