Tag: phrase of the day
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Shakespeare Insults: The Taming Of The Shrew
The Taming Of The Shrew is full of extraordinary insults. They are really funny and so good. Let’s hear it. 🎭 A pair of stocks, you rogue! A stock is a kind of ankle cuff of the time, a wooden bar with a hole and you put the criminal’s ankle in it to hold him. …
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New Series Shakespeare For You: The Taming Of The Shrew
Hi, folks! This is ELICA Miwa, Theatre director, actor, writer in Japan. I am going to start a new series of One Phrase Shakespeare. The first season was on The Two Gentlemen of Verona. We still don’t know which one is Will’s first play. But we surely know The Taming Of The Shrew is one…
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One Feast, One House, One Mutual Happiness [Shakespeare For You]
🎭That done, our day of marriage shall be yours; One feast, one house, one mutual happiness. —Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona 5-4 [ACTING TIPS] This is the closing line of the entire play. What a happy celebrating phrase. We can use it on any wedding day! The meaning of “that” in “That done” is “Proteus should…
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I Hold Him But A Fool [Shakespeare For You]
🎭 I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not. — Turio, Two Gentlemen of Verona 5-4 [ACTING TIPS] Turio was just told from Valentine that if he were to claim Silvia, he would be seen as an enemy of Verona. Thus he immediately changed his mind and…
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That One Error Fills Him With Faults [Shakespeare For You]
🎭 That one error Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins.— Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 5-4 [ACTING TIPS] There is a Japanese proverb; Ichi-ji ga Ban-ji, meaning: one thing leads to all.Proteus realizes the same. To play the words, I would say Proteus must be filled with remorse. I am not…
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Were Men But Constant [Shakespeare For You]
🎭 O heaven, were manBut constant, he were perfect. — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 5-4 [ACTING TIPS] Finally!! Proteus clearly sees his fault and is really sorry. But this line also sounds like a joke. I would think Shakespeare intends the audience laugh, after succession of harsh, rather dark, tensed scenes. Proteus isn’t joking, of…
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Women To Change Their Shapes [Shakespeare For You]
🎭. It is the lesser blot, modesty finds,Women to change their shapes than men their minds. — Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 5-4 [ACTING TIPS] Finally Proteus has found out this young boy named Sebastian is Julia in disguise. Julia strongly blames how cruel Proteus has been, and says this.q Remember, Julia has been acted as…
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O Me Unhappy! [Shakespeare For You]
🎭 O me unhappy! — Julia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 5-4 [ACTING TIPS] This Act 5, Scene 4 is really not understandable for reasonable people. Listening to Valentine, Proteus apologized. And what happens?Valentine gives Silvia for thanks to his apology. Whaaaaaat???!!! And Julia says this.And she swoons. Swoon means one faints out of extreme emotion.That’s what…
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The Private Wound Is Deepest [Shakespeare For You]
🎭 The private wound is deepest: O time most accurst, ‘Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst! — Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona 5-4 [ACTING TIPS] Valentine, hiding in the woods to see Silvia is about to be raped by his best-friend Proteus, jumped out to stop him. He means that this is the…
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In Love, Who Respects Friend? [Shakespeare For You]
🎭 Proteus: In love Who respects friend? Silvia: All men but Proteus. — Proteus & Silvia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 5-4 [ACTING TIPS] Proteus, following Silvia into the woods, and has almost raped her. He believes that to get what he wants is more important than respecting friends. I believe there are some men think like that. Mind you,…