William Shakespeare scene and monologue

My group scene is from midsummer's night dream written beween 1590-1596
My monologue is from what is believed to be shakespears next play
The merchent of venice written 1596-1598
This means the history of the two plays are the same but the plays are very different i feel this is because if the plots to the plays were too alike then the people would lose intrest in the theatre but both plays still say alot about the time they where written.

Midsummers night dream	The merchant of Venice
·         Fictional Characters. ·         Magical Storyline. ·         Big belief in magic and myths so much that it was also used as medicine.	·         Contains facts of the law. ·         Believed to be based on true events. ·         Penalty’s for laws were becoming less serious but the laws weren’t to be broken.

Monologue Development

- how did i develop my character for my monologue?

1. I researched who my character was and her relationship towards other characters so I could start to understand the meaning of the monologue and how important my monologue is to my character and her role within the play.
2. To further my understandings of the monologue and perform it to a higher ability I experimented performing my monologue using different techniques such as Stanislavsky's emotional memory and while rehearsing taking method acting into consideration.
3. To perform my monologue I used a range of small movements and kept the same voice throughout with clear pronunciation.

Monologue

My monologue is from William Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'

I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two
Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong,
I lose your company: therefore forbear awhile.
There's something tells me, but it is not love,
I would not lose you; and you know yourself,
Hate counsels not in such a quality.
But lest you should not understand me well,
And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,
I would detain you here some month or two
Before you venture for me. I could teach you
How to choose right, but I am then forsworn;
So will I never be: so may you miss me;
But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,
That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,
They have o'erlook'd me and divided me;
One half of me is yours, the other half yours,
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours. O, these naughty times
Put bars between the owners and their rights!
And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so,
Let fortune go to hell for it, not I.
I speak too long; but 'tis to peize the time,
To eke it and to draw it out in length,
To stay you from election.

The different colours are the blocks in witch I devided my monologue to make learning it easier.

My character research

Heiress Portia from ‘The Merchant of Venice’ her story as a princess.

A wealthy princess who lives in the city of Belmont waits for her

prince but the princeses have to choose the right answer from a

multiple of choices. Her preferred prince chooses the correct

answer and there happy.

A party that finishes with news of ships been wrecked and that

her Prince owes a pound of flesh. So she then dresses up as

young law clerk to stand up in court for her prince. She then

saves her prince by pointing out the pound of flesh dose not

intitle the debt collector to blood.

Her prince then inherates half of the debt collectors property for

unsecure contract. They get back to find ships are safe and

live happily ever after celebrating with another party.