ELICA MIWA

Category: Shakespeare Quote

  • See The Wonders Of The World [Shakespeare For You]

    See The Wonders Of The World [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 I rather entreat thy company
    To see the wonders of the world abroad
    Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
    Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

    — Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Whether this play is the first written one or not, it is certain one of his earliest.  

    Putting that in mind, “To see the wonders of the world abroad” must be young William’s great desire, for he repeats this idea in another earliest play “The Taming of the Shrew,” and as we know, he traveled many places in his imagination all through his writing history.  

    So, say the line “to see the wonders of the world” with fully positive excited energy like you are about to go to your dream pop-rock concert or baseball games of Dodgers.  

    Then, put a tone of disgust in “dully sluggardized” and “shapeless idleness”.

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  • Shakespeare’s First Ever Line? [Shakespeare For You]

    Shakespeare’s First Ever Line? [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus;
    Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

    — Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    If this play is the first ever written play by William Shakespeare, this phrase is the first ever written line by Will himself.  Valentine is about to leave Verona to see the bigger world.  It seems his best mate Proteus is trying to stop him.  Speak the line as if you are telling your best friend not to stop you enjoying your life with excitement.

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  • I Am Not Worth This Coil [Shakespeare For You]

    I Am Not Worth This Coil [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 I would that I were low laid in my grave:  I am not worth this coil that’s made for me.

    — Arthur, King John 2-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Arthur is a young boy who is supposed to be the king of Ireland, England, and parts of France, but abducted and killed at the age of 16  This phrase is at the point he is surrounded by many bloody nobles and is about to forcefully separated from his mother.  He says this to his mother.

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  • Where Having Nothing [Shakespeare For You]

    Where Having Nothing [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Where having nothing, nothing can be lose.

    — Earl of Warrick, Henry VI  3-3

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Be sincere.  Believe in what you say.

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  • If There Be No Great Love In The Beginning [Shakespeare For You]

    If There Be No Great Love In The Beginning [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another; I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

    — Slender, The Merry Wives of Windsor 1-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Have a try to persuade someone that, even  without love,  marriage can be still a good thing.  But Slender misuse a word, when he has to use “increase”, but “decrease”.  What kind of person would do that?

  • Too Much Of A Good Thing [Shakespeare For You]

    Too Much Of A Good Thing [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?

    — Rosalind, As You Like It 4-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Rosalind, as a boy, wants her loved one to see an honest reality of a girl, for he (Orlando) idealises his love.  “Desire too much” leads to greed which is one of  the Seven Deadly Sins.  Let her play a playful wanton boy who allures an adult man into some mischiefs.  It’s important that in Shakespearean time, no woman wore trousers.  Rosalind must be feeling so free in her outfit now.

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  • Mend Your Speech [Shakespeare For You]

    Mend Your Speech [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes.

    — King Lear, King Lear 1-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    You may act as a strict angry father, threatening his daughter.  You may act as a tender kind father, giving a life-hack tip to his daughter.  Try many things.  Never let the fixed prototype of “King Lear” stop you acting freely.

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  • We Wound Our Modesty [Shakespeare For You]

    We Wound Our Modesty [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings,
    When of ourselves we publish them.

    — Steward, All’s Well That Ends Well 1-3

    When you praise or boast of your own past good deeds, that will harm you.  You would be recognised as not modest, and people would doubt if  those good deeds were true, and you would lose your credibility.

    Don’t boast of yourself!

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  • 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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