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🎭 LUCETTA:  But in what habit will you go along?  

JULIA:  Not like a woman, for I would prevent
  The loose encounters of lascivious men.

— Julia & Lucetta, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-7

[ACTING TIPS]

This is the first moment in Shakespearean plays that a female character decides to go “not like a woman”.  Rosalind, Viola, Portia, Jessica, Imogen follow.

I would think how dangerous at that time to pretend other than your own status.  Julia needed a proper excuse (reason) to become “not like a woman”.  She has chosen it to protect her own chastity, which is fair enough.

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🎭 I’ll be as patient as a gentle stream
And make a pastime of each weary step
Till the last step have brought me to my love,
And there I’ll rest as after much turmoil
A blessed soul doth in Elysium.

— Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-7

[ACTING TIPS]

I would play this as a dreamy romantic girl, imagining herself alone in the beautiful nature.  

The most important thing in acting this is to let the audience see the scenery as vivid as possible in their brain.  For that, I need to actually see the vivid scenery in my head.

🎭 O, knows thou not his looks are my soul’s food?

— Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-7

[ACTING TIPS]

What she love is his looks!  Well, maybe it means not his looks but his presence.

Still, it is quite sexy to think of him as food.

🎭A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary
To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps; 
Much less shall she that hath Love’s wings to fly, 

— Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-7

[ACTING TIPS]

Julia has told her maid Lucetta that she is going to visit her love Proteus in Milan.  Lucetta told her the road is long and winding.  And Julia says…

I would play this as a teacher.  Teach Lucetta what a true pilgrim is like, and with that example, her travel should be much easier.

I will not forget she compares herself as a pilgrim, which means she deificate Proteus.  

Here again, we see Shakespeare’s favorite reference of Love and wings.  Also, we notice the example of “pilgrim”, like in Romeo and Juliet.

🎭She is fair; and so is Julia that I love — 
That I did love, for now my love is thawed, 
Which like a waxen image ‘giants a fire 
Bears no impression of the thing it was.

— Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-4

[ACTING TIPS]

Enjoy the moment he realizes his heart from line 1 to line 2.

Viola refers about “women’s waxen heart” in The Twelfth Night.  

I also notice he says “the thing”, after he said “a newer object” just before.  He take woman as objects!!  How do you act this personality?

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