🎭 Already have I been false to Valentine,
And now I must be as unjust to Turio.
Under the colour of commending him
I have access my own love to prefer.
But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy
To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.
— Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 4-2
[ACTING TIPS]
This monologue is a confession of
1 what he has done
2 what he is going to do
3 what he is suffering.
Shall I play this as a villain without no remorse for his betrayal of his friend?
Or, rather as a kind of victim who feels as if he has been driven by some unnatural force, and doesn’t know what is going on?
I may like to play the latter. But I need to see the whole frame of the play, to decide which is more dramatically interesting whether he is bad or not so bad.