let him smell his way to Dover

Our Beatrice thinks the way I deliver "thus, pretty lady" is horrible and tonight was the worst it's ever been.

Playing both Helena and Puck is crazy!! What are you doing at the end of a3s2??

But yes my best Shakespeare advice is that everything is in the text - look at all the punctuation within the lines, at the end of the lines, when the lines are end-stopped and when they're not. Note down when the lines run on and consider how you're playing it, is there a pause or a break of any sort? You'd be surprised how often the answer is yes.

The difference between prose and verse isn't, as people often claim, between the class of the characters, but in the vast majority of cases it's an indication of the emotion/how heightened the scene is. As a rule, look for when verse is used, then look at when rhyming couples are used, then when "O!" is used - the emotion is generally heightened each time. For Puck, this might also be the case but it also might indicate the heightened magical/absurd state of the events of the play.

In general, you're going to want to think about objectives, ie what your character wants from other people in the scene. These should be as specific as possible, so instead of Helena's objective being "i want you (Demetrius) to love me" it should be "i want you to tell me you love me".

Given circumstances are also great to think about, so do a list, ideally using quotations, outlining the following:

What does my character say about themselves?

What do other people say about my character?

What does my character say about other people?

They should help as a starter - it'll take some time but I think it's well worth it. I think learning lines exactly really helps too, Shakespeare chose those words for a reason so use them.

When Conrad and Don John end up unwittingly wearing the same outfit

I was never curst

I have no gift at all in shrewishness, I am a right maid for my cowardice