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ACTIvITy 4.13
Interpreting Character in performance
leArNING sTrATeGIes:
Diffusing, Marking the Text, Paraphrasing, Rereading, Sketching, Discussion Groups, Rehearsal , Drafting
dialogue 1
gait: walk, step
my Notes
Learning Targets
• Analyze the relationship between character and plot in a dialogue.
• Write an expository interpretation of a character in a performance.
Preview
In this activity, you will read a dialogue, rehearse it, and perform it with a partner.
Setting a Purpose for Reading
• As you read the dialogue, underline words and phrases that provide information about the characters' traits.
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
Twelfth Night,
adapted from
by William Shakespeare
Act 1, Scene 4
Viola (disguised as the servant Cesario, speaking to herself): If the duke continue these favours towards you,
Cesario, you are like to be much advanced: he hath
known you but three days, and already you are no stranger. Here comes the count. (Enter DUKE ORSINO)
Duke Orsino: Who saw Cesario, ho? Viola: On your attendance, my lord; here.
Duke Orsino: Cesario, Thou know’st no less but all; I have unclasp’d To thee the book even of my secret soul:
Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her;
Be not denied access, stand at her doors,
And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow Till thou have audience.
Viola: Sure, my noble lord,
If she be so abandon’d to her sorrow As it is spoke, she never will admit me.
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