![All The World’s A Stage [Shakespeare For You]](https://elicamiwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/img_8041-1.jpg)
Happy Birthday, My Dear Will!
Yes, 23rd of April in 1564, he is said to have been born, and died definitely on that day in 1616.
My acting lesson students wanted to have a monologue/soliloquy presentation, and I also did two speeches.
Here is one of them, Jaques. All the world’s a stage.
![Kameido Shrine with Wisteria, and “Too Low A Mistress” [Shakespeare For You]](https://elicamiwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/22878c77b535fb37f4b1eb29e4b28ae8-scaled.jpg)
🎭 Sylvia: Too low a mistress for so high a servant.
Proteus: Not so, sweet lady, but too mean a servant
To have a look of such a worthy mistress.
— Sylvia & Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-4
[ACTING TIPS]
This is the first ever conversation between Sylvia and Proteus. Sylvia, right after hearing what a splendid gentleman he is, from Valentine. So she is very interested in him. Her father says he is worth her husband, and she looks at him as a potential future husband.
On the other hand, Proteus has made a vow to his lady Julia in Verona. He can be struck with Sylvia’s sophisticated manners and beauty, but he then more strongly tell himself that he would not be moved. That makes the play more interesting.
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![He Is A Kind Of Chameleon [Shakespeare For You]](https://elicamiwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pexels-photo-1695717.jpeg)
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Silvia: What, angry, Sir Turio? Do you change colour?
Valentine: Give him leave, madam, he is a kind of chameleon.
Turio: That hath more mind to feed on your blood than live in your air.
— Silvia, Valentine, and Turio, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-4
[ACTING TIPS]
This is a word-fight in a comic scene. They are no servants. Both of them are Sirs. Keep your status high and pull your counterpart lower down. Mind that even it is a comedy, the characters are serious. Maybe too serious, but not dark. Silvia enjoys her status which were held higher and higher as both boys fight for her.
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![If The River Were Dry [Shakespeare For You]](https://elicamiwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pexels-photo-2178175.jpeg)
🎭 Lose the tide, and the voyage, and the master, and the service, and the tied? Why, man, if the river were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears; if the wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs.
— Lance, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-3
[ACTING TIPS]
When acting a comic character, be serious and with low status, and sudden changes. Take everything as too much. You can be crying, angry, weeping, whimpering, or whatever. Only, do not try to be funny.
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🎭 Julia, farewell.
What, gone without a word?
Ay so true love should do: it cannot speak,
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
— Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-2
[ACTING TIPS]
Proteus feels a bit of frustration when he finds Julia has gone before he leaves. He probably wants her to see him off. We all know that “left unattended” feeling, don’t we? And think up any reasonable cause which suit him.
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![To You Two Thousand [Shakespeare For You]](https://elicamiwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/spring-flowers-flowers-collage-floral-68507.jpeg)
🎭 Sir Valentine, servant, to you two thousand.
— Sylvia, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-1
[ACTING TIPS]
Remember my cast yesterday? Valentine greeted Sylvia: Madam, and mistress, a thousand good-morrows. This is her reply.
Feel the sense of humour, but keep your serious face with high status. She loves Valentine, but do not show it yet. Therefore, play cool.
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![If You Love Her, You Cannot See Her [Shakespeare For You]](https://elicamiwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pexels-photo-10176433.jpeg)
🎭 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]](https://elicamiwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pexels-photo-3731878.jpeg)
🎭 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]](https://elicamiwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pexels-photo-2775196.jpeg)
🎭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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![Please You Deliberate A Day Or Two [Shakespeare For You]](https://elicamiwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pexels-photo-596710.jpeg)
🎭My Lord, I cannot be so soon provided;
Please you deliberate a day or two.
— Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-3
[ACTING TIPS]
The line seems similar to what Juliet says to her father when she is ordered to get married Paris.
Of course the play is a comedy, but don’t forget his seriousness. If you play serious, then it would be more interesting when he changes his love so quickly as soon as he comes to Milan.
“My Lord” is his father. So the status differences are very strict.
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