ELICA MIWA

Tag: life in Japan

  • This Parting Strikes Poor Lovers Dumb [Shakespeare For You]

    This Parting Strikes Poor Lovers Dumb [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Alas, this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.

    — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-2

    [ACTING TIPS]

    The last sentence of each scene makes the key moment in Shakespeare plays.  It gives a drive to keep the play going.  With energy.  With a big breath.  Grab the audience.

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  • Seal The Bargain With A Holy Kiss [Shakespeare For You]

    Seal The Bargain With A Holy Kiss [Shakespeare For You]

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    Julia:  Keep this remembrance for thy Julia’s sake. 

    Proteus:  Why then, we’ll make exchange:  here, take you this.  

    Julia:  And seal the bargain with a holy kiss. 

    — Julia & Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-2

    [ACTING TIPS]

    The conversation reminds me of Romeo and Juliet.  They exchange holy kiss with their palms.  And the whole love-bonding “ceremony” is lead by Julia, like Juliet takes the lead in the balcony scene.  The exchange of the ring appears in many Shakespeare plays, too.  

    I am amused with the casual feeling of Proteus.  Of course you can play him seriously, but the weight of his words looks lighter than Julia’s.  What do you think?

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  • If You Love Her, You Cannot See Her [Shakespeare For You]

    If You Love Her, You Cannot See Her [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Speed:  If you love her, you cannot see her. 
    Valentine:  Why?  
    Speed:  Because Love is blind.

    — Speed & Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Enjoy Speed.  You can actually do whatever you like.  Just tickle Valentine in the end.  Valentine, don’t assume Speed is joking.  Be serious, and may be a little angry.

    The phrase “Love is blind” appears in many of his plays.   It can be said almost all love relationships in his plays get in trouble because of this.

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Maids in Modesty Say “No” [Shakespeare For You]

    Maids in Modesty Say “No” [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭Since maids in modesty say ‘No’ to that Which they would have the profferer construe ‘Ay’.

    — Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-2

    [ACTING TIPS]

    You can say this as a maid in modesty, or not.  You can put a mood of sadness, frustration, or helplessness.  Try various feelings and moods.

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