ELICA MIWA

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  • Once More, Adieu [Shakespeare For You]

    Once More, Adieu [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Once more, adieu.  My father at the road
    Expects my coming, there to see me shipped.

    — Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Finally, Valentine is leaving, after exchanging a word-association game on love.  

    Say good bye to Proteus.  

    Think, why “My father at the road expects my coming” is said.  Maybe Proteus shows hesitation?  Maybe Valentine needs another minute to say something?  

    Find many reasons and choose one at a time.

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  • More Than Over-Shoes In Love [Shakespeare For You]

    More Than Over-Shoes In Love [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 That’s a deep story of a deeper love; For he was more than over-shoes in love.

    — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    An example of their word association game.  Valentine’s former words leads Proteus to say this.  Valentine has referred to Greek mythical love story Hero & Leander.  Leander drowned himself in deep sea.  Valentine laughs at Proteus is shallowly in love.  Then, Proteus says this.  “More than over-shoes” means “head over heels”.

    In acting this, it is important to keep your humour, but you’ve got to be different from Valentine.  Need to talk with the actor of Valentine to make differences clear.

    Also, this line is a good example of iambic pentameter.

  • Shallow Story of Deep Love [Shakespeare For You]

    Shallow Story of Deep Love [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 That’s on some shallow story of deep love.  How young Leander cross’d the Hellespont.

    — Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    One of the “hard-to-understand” phrases for the modern audience.  Leander is a Greek mythological character who is in Hero and Leander story.  It is a love tragedy so popular during Shakespearean era.  Hero and Leander were in love secretly.  Leander swam the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles) to see her every night.  But one night, he lost the way and drowned.  Shakespeare refers the theme of Hero & Leander many times. 

    From this line, two gentlemen of Verona interchange conversation for a minute, on shallow, deep, love, and boots, aa a word-association game.  So, be playful.  Pick up the word you want to change the meaning upside down.  Win the game.

  • Wilt Thou Be Gone? [Shakespeare For You]

    Wilt Thou Be Gone? [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Wilt thou be gone?

    — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    You can say this in any tone, feeling, and style.  You can say this sadly.  You can say this nonchalantly as if he doesn’t really care, although he really doesn’t want him to go.  You can say this as if you had enough.  Or, you can say this as if he is your love, which is possible during Shakespearean era.

    The same phrase is used by Juliet in the famous bed scene.

  • Where Having Nothing [Shakespeare For You]

    Where Having Nothing [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Where having nothing, nothing can be lose.

    — Earl of Warrick, Henry VI  3-3

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Be sincere.  Believe in what you say.

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  • Too Much Of A Good Thing [Shakespeare For You]

    Too Much Of A Good Thing [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?

    — Rosalind, As You Like It 4-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Rosalind, as a boy, wants her loved one to see an honest reality of a girl, for he (Orlando) idealises his love.  “Desire too much” leads to greed which is one of  the Seven Deadly Sins.  Let her play a playful wanton boy who allures an adult man into some mischiefs.  It’s important that in Shakespearean time, no woman wore trousers.  Rosalind must be feeling so free in her outfit now.

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  • Mend Your Speech [Shakespeare For You]

    Mend Your Speech [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes.

    — King Lear, King Lear 1-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    You may act as a strict angry father, threatening his daughter.  You may act as a tender kind father, giving a life-hack tip to his daughter.  Try many things.  Never let the fixed prototype of “King Lear” stop you acting freely.

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  • We Wound Our Modesty [Shakespeare For You]

    We Wound Our Modesty [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings,
    When of ourselves we publish them.

    — Steward, All’s Well That Ends Well 1-3

    When you praise or boast of your own past good deeds, that will harm you.  You would be recognised as not modest, and people would doubt if  those good deeds were true, and you would lose your credibility.

    Don’t boast of yourself!

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  • For Orpheus’ lute was strung with poets’ sinews [Shakespeare For You]

    For Orpheus’ lute was strung with poets’ sinews [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 For Orpheus’ lute was strung with poets’ sinews,
    Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
    Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans
    Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. 

    — Proteus, The Two Gentlemen in Verona, 3-2

    Shakespeare loves music.  The idea that music moves harden hearts appears repeatedly in many comedies of his.

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Proteus is talking to a man who is trying to attract a lady but she is not interested in him.  Proteus tells him to use music, for it will soften the hardest of the hardest.  But secretly, Proteus himself has fallen in love with the same lady.  He has a plot.  Thus, Proteus may act like a very tactful salesman.

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  • And All The Gods Go With You [Shakespeare For You]

    And All The Gods Go With You [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 And all the gods go with you! upon your sword Sit laurel victory, and smooth success Be strewed before your feet.

    — Cleopatra, Antony & Cleopatra 1-3

    I would make her say this line that she is really afraid of losing him in a battle he is heading to.  I wouldn’t take his victory for granted.  I would say this as if I am sending my husband to the front line of a war, knowing perfectly well how awful it is.

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