Sounding cheesy....when playing Shakespeare?

Question:I am playing Hermia in a Midsummer nights dream and a few lines i say, may sound fake and cheesy. How can i make them sound REAL!!!!

And techniques to find emotion behind the soft sounding words?

eg/
Be it so Lysander. Find you out a bed.
For i upon this bank, will rest my head.

When i say it, it sounds soft, or if i try to change it sounds..weird!

Please help!!!

:) thanks!!

Please only helpful answers, nothing else!!!!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I am playing Hermia in a Midsummer nights dream and a few lines i say, may sound fake and cheesy. How can i make them sound REAL!!!!

And techniques to find emotion behind the soft sounding words?

eg/
Be it so Lysander. Find you out a bed.
For i upon this bank, will rest my head.

When i say it, it sounds soft, or if i try to change it sounds..weird!

Please help!!!

:) thanks!!

Please only helpful answers, nothing else!!!!

First of all if the character speaks a rhyme, she does it on purpose, for fun or emphasis, here for fun. second, if you understant that all your lines are reponses to things others say or do, you will speak them more naturally. Relax and have fun. That is what Shakespeare and acting are all about.

The problem is probably that it is a couplet, which is the hardest of Shakespeare's lines to say without sounding goofy.

There are two different appraoches. One is to break up the rhythm a bit, so it doesn't sound so canned. That would be easy to do in this, as the lines indicate an action. You stop after "I" pause, lie down, and then finish the line, for example.

The other approach is to make the little poem a playful choice of Hermia's, a little fliratious rhyme, just a game.

(A third -- play it tired, and yawning.)