ELICA MIWA

Author: ELICAMIWA

  • For Orpheus’ lute was strung with poets’ sinews [Shakespeare For You]

    For Orpheus’ lute was strung with poets’ sinews [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 For Orpheus’ lute was strung with poets’ sinews,
    Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
    Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans
    Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. 

    — Proteus, The Two Gentlemen in Verona, 3-2

    Shakespeare loves music.  The idea that music moves harden hearts appears repeatedly in many comedies of his.

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Proteus is talking to a man who is trying to attract a lady but she is not interested in him.  Proteus tells him to use music, for it will soften the hardest of the hardest.  But secretly, Proteus himself has fallen in love with the same lady.  He has a plot.  Thus, Proteus may act like a very tactful salesman.

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  • I wasted time [Shakespeare For You]

    I wasted time [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. 

    — King Richard II, RICHARD II 5-5

    In this very last scene, just before assassins come to slain him, he was talking to himself (i.e. to the audience), thinking the difference between the prison and the world.  And he realises this.

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  • And All The Gods Go With You [Shakespeare For You]

    And All The Gods Go With You [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 And all the gods go with you! upon your sword Sit laurel victory, and smooth success Be strewed before your feet.

    — Cleopatra, Antony & Cleopatra 1-3

    I would make her say this line that she is really afraid of losing him in a battle he is heading to.  I wouldn’t take his victory for granted.  I would say this as if I am sending my husband to the front line of a war, knowing perfectly well how awful it is.

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  • Thy overflow of good converts to bad [ SHakespeare For You]

    🎭 Thy overflow of good converts to bad, And they abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot in thy digressing son.

    — Henry Bolingbroke, Richard II 5-3

    Henry Bolingbroke has just taken the crown from Richard II, and here, found out a death plot from his friend, Duke of Aumerle.

    Henry Bolingbroke is worrying about his son (future HenryV), fears of treason at all times, and he must take care of his people as a king.  Thus this leads to his famous speech on sleep, in Henry IV Part 2.

    Aumerle has come to see the new King Henry IV, cleared the room, and locked up, for either apologising to have the treason plan,  or to kill the new traitor king.  What do you think? 

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  • The Setting Sun, And Music At The Close [Shakespeare For You]

    The Setting Sun, And Music At The Close [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

    — John of Gaunt, Richard II 2-1

    Richard II as the setting sun.  And the monarchy has a long history of troubles.  But people tend to forget the past things, and enjoy the end of one man.  

    I love the play.  Do you?

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  • O it is excellent to have a giant’s strength [Shakespeare For You]

    O it is excellent to have a giant’s strength [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 O it is excellent 
    To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous 
    To use it like a giant.

    — Isabella, Measure For Measure 2-2

    Do hear, world leaders?

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  • Sigh No More [Shakespeare For You]

    Sigh No More [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Sigh no more, Ladies, sigh no more,
    Men were deceivers ever, 
    One foot in sea and one on shore,
    To one thing constant never.

    — Balthasar, Much Ado About Nothing 2-3

    Ladies, do not let yourself worry over men.  They are flirtatious by nature.  Well, that’s what Shakespeare says.

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  • That’s neither here nor there [Shakespeare For You]

    That’s neither here nor there [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 I know Ann’s mind.  That’s neither here nor there.

    — Mistress Quickly, The Merry Wives of Windsor 1-4

    A man called Dr Caius wishes to marry Ann.  Mistress Quickly tries to prevent it, for she knows Ann is in love with someone else.  

    This video is taken at The Marbles, a hair salon in Fuchu, Tokyo.

    You know, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, the main character Sir john Falstaff is punished as he wears antlers.  Just the perfect setting!

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  • When Fortune Means to Men Most Good [Shakespeare For You]

    When Fortune Means to Men Most Good [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 When Fortune means to men most good,

    She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

    — Cardinal Randulph, King John 3-4

    When you think you are successful and the fortune is on your side, always be aware that she (Fortune) betrays you in a minute.

    This phrase was said to an unfortunate person who had just beaten by King John, and Cardinal Randulph told him that the unfortunate one was not him but King John himself.  But we can keep that in mind, and prepare for any turns.

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  • Is Love a Tender Thing? [Shakespeare For You]

    Is Love a Tender Thing? [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,

    Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

    — Romeo, Romeo and Juliet, 1-2

    Ask Romeo about love!

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