ELICA MIWA

Tag: Valentine

  • 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.

  • See The Wonders Of The World [Shakespeare For You]

    See The Wonders Of The World [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭 I rather entreat thy company
    To see the wonders of the world abroad
    Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
    Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

    — Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    Whether this play is the first written one or not, it is certain one of his earliest.  

    Putting that in mind, “To see the wonders of the world abroad” must be young William’s great desire, for he repeats this idea in another earliest play “The Taming of the Shrew,” and as we know, he traveled many places in his imagination all through his writing history.  

    So, say the line “to see the wonders of the world” with fully positive excited energy like you are about to go to your dream pop-rock concert or baseball games of Dodgers.  

    Then, put a tone of disgust in “dully sluggardized” and “shapeless idleness”.

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  • Shakespeare’s First Ever Line? [Shakespeare For You]

    Shakespeare’s First Ever Line? [Shakespeare For You]

    🎭Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus;
    Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

    — Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1-1

    [ACTING TIPS]

    If this play is the first ever written play by William Shakespeare, this phrase is the first ever written line by Will himself.  Valentine is about to leave Verona to see the bigger world.  It seems his best mate Proteus is trying to stop him.  Speak the line as if you are telling your best friend not to stop you enjoying your life with excitement.

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