🎭 SILVIA: Who is that that spake?
PROTEUS: One, lady, if you knew his pure heart’s truth,
You would quickly learn to know him by his voice.
SILVIA: Sir Proteus, as I take it.
— Silvia & Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 4-2
[ACTING TIPS]
Silvia is in her room of a high tower. It is evening and too dark to see see who is under the tower from the window.
Which is very much like the first balcony scene of Romeo & Juliet. Juliet cannot see Romeo, for she says something like “From the voice, are you Romeo the Montague?” (Which means she proposed Romeo without seeing him. Wow.)
I love Shakespeare using the same situation into varied plots and circumstances.
I can see how Sylvia expected that someone below could be her love.
I can see how Sylvia is disappointed to know that someone below is her hate.
