Performing ShakespeareNick Hern Books, 2007 - 274 pages Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies offers practical advice to actors, directors, and drama students on a wide variety of scenes, characters, speeches, and individual lines from almost every one of the plays. An authoritative, hands-on guide through the practical challenges involved in performing Shakespeare. |
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Page 49
... heart ' . Hamlet is so full of linguistic improvisation that he cannot stop himself punning at Polonius ' expense : POLONIUS I did enact Julius Caesar . I was killed i'th ' Capitol . Brutus killed me . HAMLET It was a brute part of him ...
... heart ' . Hamlet is so full of linguistic improvisation that he cannot stop himself punning at Polonius ' expense : POLONIUS I did enact Julius Caesar . I was killed i'th ' Capitol . Brutus killed me . HAMLET It was a brute part of him ...
Page 61
... heart from him ? ' ( Sobbing : his heart was mine yesterday ) . You know you won't finally do the speech so slowly and wildly , but the more you take your time and throw it about , the more each phrase and image will come to mean ...
... heart from him ? ' ( Sobbing : his heart was mine yesterday ) . You know you won't finally do the speech so slowly and wildly , but the more you take your time and throw it about , the more each phrase and image will come to mean ...
Page 92
... heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault . If it confess A natural guiltiness , such as is his , Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life . ( Measure for Measure , 2.2.137-44 ) Isabella has ...
... heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault . If it confess A natural guiltiness , such as is his , Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life . ( Measure for Measure , 2.2.137-44 ) Isabella has ...
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