ELICA MIWA

Tag: beautiful scenery

  • 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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  • 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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  • Fire That’s Closest Kept Burns Most Of All [Shakespeare For You]

    Fire That’s Closest Kept Burns Most Of All [Shakespeare For You]

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    Julia:  His little speaking shows his love but small.  

    Lucetta:  Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all.  

    — Julia, Lucetta, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-2

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Julia is in love with Proteus (he), and she needs a proof that he is in love with her too.  Lucetta knows that.  

    You may act Julia as stubborn, proud, and showing no love toward him.  Julia will speak her true mind that she is madly in love with him as a monologue later, so be brave to hide it.  

    You may act Lucetta as kind, understanding, nice maid, nursing a stubborn child.

    Try many combination.  Their ages may be quite close, like sisters.

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  • A Woman’s Reason [Shakespeare For You]

    A Woman’s Reason [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 I have no other but a woman’s reason:  I think him so because I think him so.

    — Lucetta, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-2

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Lucetta the maid says to her mistress.  A “woman’s reason” means there is no reason.  This phrase makes me smile to imagine young Shakespeare was told so from his girlfriend or from his mother, or maybe from one of his house’s maids.  I love to say this for once.  Anyway, act it proudly, positively, and definitely.

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  • Now We Are Alone [Shakespeare For You]

    Now We Are Alone [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 But say, Lucetta, now we are alone, Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love?

    — Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-2

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Julia is to choose a husband from suitors, and ask advice from her maid, Lucetta. 
    This husband choosing with the maid scene is repeated in The Merchant of Venice’s Portia and her maid Nelissa. 

    Both Julia and Portia are going to disguise themselves to be a boy.  But think that you are going to perform both of them, then you must make big differences between these two ladies. 

    How would you do?

    Just to point out for fun that “now we are alone” resembles Hamlet’s “Now I am alone” just before he starts his third soliloquy.

  • My Horns Are His Horns [Shakespeare For You]

    My Horns Are His Horns [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Why then, my horns are his horns, whether I wake or sleep.

    — Speed, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-1

    (I said scene 2 in the video; it is scene 1!)

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Speed is the servant to Valentine, and a comic character.  This Master/Servant pair is typical for Renaissance Italian comedy (Commedia Dell’arte), and shows Shakespeare is influenced by it.  So, be funny!  

    You may know the “horn” gag.  When a husband has a horn, it means his wife has betrayed him.  The horn on the head of a man is the proof that this man cannot sexually satisfy his wife.

    The servant is the property of the master.  Therefore, the servant’s property is his master’s.

    “Whether I wake or sleep” is deprived from the Bible.

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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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  • Give Me Some Music [Shakespeare For You]

    Give Me Some Music [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Give me some music, music, moody food Of us that trade in love. 

    — Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra

    Shakespeare loves music and there are thousands of references about music.  This is one of them.  

    We can tell that she is moody because she is in love with Antony.  I think she must’ve been a constant lady rather than a moody one, until she met Antony.  This feeling of moodiness must be new to her.   

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  • My glass shall not persuade me [Shakespeare For You]

    My glass shall not persuade me [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 My glass shall not persuade me I am old, 
    So long as youth and thou are of one date.

    — sonnet 22

    It seems ageing is the oldest problem human beings have in any culture.

    When your young friend is so fresh and young, we ourselves feel younger.  But in fact, the mirror would tell us we are old, however much we refuse to accept the fact.

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