Also, this isn't the most academic website, but they can't all be wikipedia, right? It's the Bro Code, which the Proteans and the Valentineans might find interesting/useful: http://jigarbpatel.blogspot.com/2008/12/official-bro-code-part-1-articles-1-40.html
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Bros before Prose...or Hoes...or Hose...
So, while scanning out my lines I noticed that in the middle of the first scene Proteus switches from Verse to Prose after a rhyming couplet (line 75). I think that he is trying to leave Speed and exit since his business with his loved one (his Bro, Valentine) is concluded, but Speed distracts him with the sheep rhetoric. It isn't until Speed has left that Proteus goes back to Verse.
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That's hilarious, AJ. Thanks for sharing!
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ReplyDeleteBeing cast as Speed, I noticed that too. I think Speed uses poetics as a means to emphasize his antagonizing. Especially the debatable 1.1.132-36. I think he is using doggerel verse to grow anticipation and play with proteus's need to hear what has happened.
ReplyDeleteIt's awesome how proteus seems little affected by Speeds taunting in that he doesn't seem to get some jokes or he could blow them off well.