Viola expresses her deep dissatisfaction with the superficiality of courtly life and the limitations placed on women in the theater. She confides in her Nurse, articulating a passionate desire for a transformative, 'ungovernable' love and a life filled with poetry and adventure.
VIOLA: Did you like Proteus or Valentine best? Proteus for speaking, Valentine for looks.
NURSE: I liked the dog, for laughs.
VIOLA: But Silvia I did not care for much. His fingers were red from fighting and he spoke like a schoolboy at lessons. Stage love will never be true love while the law of th
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