ELICA MIWA

Category: Shakespeare Quote

  • Why This It Is [Shakespeare For You]

    Why This It Is [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Why this it is:  my heart accords thereto,
    And yet a thousand times it answers ‘No”.

    — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-3

    [ACTING TIPS]

    (In the video, I say “Why, this is it.”  Shakespeare says “Why, this it is”. (same meaning)

    This is an interesting phrase.  Check the mixed feeling in him, part of it is willing to go, and the other part still saying no.  Be amused. 

    Or, it seems he is ready to go, but tells us his unwillingness only because he doesn’t want us to see him changeable.

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  • The Uncertain Glory of An April Day [Shakespeare For You]

    The Uncertain Glory of An April Day [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭O, how this spring of love resembleth
    The uncertain glory of an April day,
    Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
    And by and by a cloud takes all away.

    — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-3

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Be dramatic, tragic, poetic.  But all the feelings must be real.  Look at the sky.

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  • Please You Deliberate A Day Or Two [Shakespeare For You]

    Please You Deliberate A Day Or Two [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭My Lord, I cannot be so soon provided;
    Please you deliberate a day or two.

    — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-3

    [ACTING TIPS]

    The line seems similar to what Juliet says to her father when she is ordered to get married Paris. 

    Of course the play is a comedy, but don’t forget his seriousness.  If you play serious, then it would be more interesting when he changes his love so quickly as soon as he comes to Milan. 

    “My Lord” is his father.  So the status differences are very strict. 

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  • What I will, I will. [Shakespeare For You]

    What I will, I will. [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭For what I will, I will, and there an end.

    — Antonio, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-3

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Father tries to keep his status high.

    I love the phrase. So compact and so definite!

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  • Sweet Love, Sweet Lines, Sweet Life [Shakespeare For You]

    Sweet Love, Sweet Lines, Sweet Life [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭Sweet love, sweet lines, sweet life! 
    Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; 
    Here is her oath for love, her honour’s pawn.  
    O, that our fathers would applaud our loves
    To seal our happiness with their consents. 
    O heavenly Julia! 

    — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-3

    [ACTING TIPS]

    I love his usage of 3 Sweet Ls.  Then he repeats “Here is her~”, and then two big senteces starting with “O”.

    “O” is thought to be something even Shakespeare could not portray with words.  At the same time, frequent repetitive usage of “O” is a proof of dumbness.

    He has a love letter from Julia in his hand.  Since this is a soliloquy, basically you are talking to the audience to share your thoughts.

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  • How To Become A Perfect Man [Shakespeare For You]

    How To Become A Perfect Man [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 And how he cannot be a perfect man
    Not being tried and tutored in the world.

    — Antonio, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-3

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Antonio, the father to Proteus, hits the greatest idea to make his son go abroad.  Stress the word “perfect” and “world”.

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  • Like Tell-Tales [Shakespeare For You]

    Like Tell-Tales [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭What, shall these papers lie like tell-tales here?

    — Lucetta, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-2

    [ACTING TIPS]

    You can act this in many ways.  Lucetta says to Julia that It is just unforgivable to leave the remains of her act.  

    I chose the phrase only I love the lovely word “tell-tales”. HAHA.

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  • O Hateful Hands [Shakespeare For You]

    O Hateful Hands [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 O hateful hands, to tear such loving words! 
    Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey
    And kill the bees that yield it with your stings! 
    I’ll kiss each several paper for amends.

    — Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-2

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Yourself and parts of your body are different.  Hamlet apologises to Laertes that it is his hands have done harm and not he.  Julia’s hands tore the letter from Proteus without Julia’s intention.  Talk to your hands, be angry at your hands, but you will be kissing the letter.

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  • Insults? [Shakespeare For You]

    Insults? [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 You, minion, are too saucy.  

    — Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-2

    [ACTING TIPS]

    You get mad too quickly!  Shut Lucetta up, with affection.  

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  • The True Meaning of “Burden” for Shakespeare Girls. [Shakespeare For You]

    The True Meaning of “Burden” for Shakespeare Girls. [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭Heavy?  Belike it hath some burden then? 

    — Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-2

    [ACTING TIPS]

    The word “burden” in Shakespeare, when female characters use, it means to be under the lover or husband in bed, or even to conceive a baby.  

    So, when Julia hears the word “heavy, ” immediately change the meaning into this, at the same time, retain the original meaning of “burden”.  

    Showing the double meaning is one of the trickiest things in Shakespeare.  

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