Friday, 22 March 2013

Ceres Lines


I looked up what my lines mean on "No Fear Shakespeare", so that I really knew what I was saying and what I would be talking about, so that I could give a believable performance.


CERES
Hail, many-coloured messenger, that ne'er
Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;
Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers
Diffusest honey drops, refreshing showers;
And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
My bosky acres and my unshrubbed down,
Rich scarf to my proud earth. Why hath thy queen
Summoned me hither to this short-grassed green?
CERES
Greetings to you, rainbow messenger, who never disobeys Juno, wife of Jupiter; with your golden wings you sprinkle dewdrops and refreshing showers on my flowers, and arch your coloured bow over my wooded fields and grassy meadows, like a beautiful scarf to decorate my earth. Why has your queen, Juno, called me here to this grassy spot?
CERES
     Tell me, heavenly bow,
If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,
Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot
The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,
Her and her blind boy’s scandaled company
I have forsworn.
CERES
Tell me, rainbow, do you know if either Venus, the goddess of love, or her son, Cupid, is accompanying Queen Juno? Ever since Venus and her blind son plotted a way for the god of the underworld to steal my daughter away for half the year, I swore I’d never speak to them again.
CERES
    Highest queen of state,
Great Juno, comes. I know her by her gait.
CERES
Great Queen Juno is coming. I know her by her walk.
CERES
(sings)
 Earth’s increase, foison plenty,
 Barns and garners never empty,
 Vines and clustering bunches growing,
 Plants with goodly burden bowing—
 Spring come to you at the farthest
 In the very end of harvest.
 Scarcity and want shall shun you.
 Ceres' blessing so is on you.
CERES
(singing)
 Growing crops and large harvests,
 Barns and silos full of grain,
 Vines heavy with clustered grapes,
 Plants straining under their fruit—
 May spring follow directly autumn’s harvest,
 With none of winter’s hardships to endure,
 You will have plenty and want nothing,
 Ceres’s blessings on you

This really helped me to understand the lines, how I can become my character and what type of personality she has.

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