full length · drama
Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies
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Characters
| Queries For Discussion | lead | 73 speeches |
| Query For Discussion | supporting | 11 speeches |
| Points | supporting | 7 speeches |
| Vi | minor | 6 speeches |
| Vii | minor | 6 speeches |
| Ii | minor | 4 speeches |
| Iii | minor | 4 speeches |
| Iv | minor | 4 speeches |
| Viii | minor | 4 speeches |
| Ix | minor | 3 speeches |
Read the play
VALENTINE AND SILVIA
Tell the story of this Act.
Explain the courtship scene with which this Act opens as illustrating the service of love in systems of Chivalry. (For hints on this see Introduction to the Play in "First Folio Edition" also Note on II, i, 97).
Contrast the earnestness of Valentine's nature in this devotion to Silvia with the fickleness of Protheus.
The two servants, Speed and Launce, may be compared, their contrasts to each other shown, and their general resemblance to a similarly contrasted pair--the two Dromios in the "Comedie of Errors."
Queries For Discussion. Is the love of Protheus for Silvia a reflex influence from Valentine's extreme enthusiasm?
Why does Lucetta distrust Protheus?