I was absent from today's lesson due to an important doctors appointment and feeling unwell. I have spoken with class mates and have learned that we began to devise the opening scene for Twelfth Night. We were all asked to learn the lines to Orsino's speech for this opening scene. The scene involves the storm and the the two twins, Viola and Sebastian being separated.
The speech we are using in this scene....
If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.
That strain again, it had a dying fall.
O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour. Enough, no more,
’Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, naught enters there,
Of what validity and pitch so e’er,
But falls into abatement and low price
Even in a minute! So full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.
In yesterdays class towards the end we all got together and performed this speech a few times, the first time all at once, the second time we each performed a line each and the third time we were all back to back in a circle. I have learned this speech now and feel confident with the lines and rhythm of the speech.
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