Speaking ShakespeareMethuen, 2002 - 355 pages This text journeys to the heart of speaking and acting Shakespeare. Starting with the givens of speaking verse through to the rehearsal of leading Shakespeare roles from Hamlet, King Lear, Richard III, Macbeth and others, this title unlocks some of the greatest challenges from a playwrite that any actor will encounter. With a mixture of anecdotes and clear instructions starting with the voice and moving on to major textual analysis, this text provides a guide to anyone who wants to start to understand how to act Shakespeare. |
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Page 59
... give order to an emotional outpouring . Your voice and connection to the text will be full and heartfelt . Notice how longer vowels open the heart , shorter ones close it down . Paulina : Woe the while ! O , cut my lace , lest my heart ...
... give order to an emotional outpouring . Your voice and connection to the text will be full and heartfelt . Notice how longer vowels open the heart , shorter ones close it down . Paulina : Woe the while ! O , cut my lace , lest my heart ...
Page 128
... give name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights That those that walk and wot not what they are . Too much to know is to know nought but fame ; And every godfather can give a name . King : How well he's read ...
... give name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights That those that walk and wot not what they are . Too much to know is to know nought but fame ; And every godfather can give a name . King : How well he's read ...
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... give to be to you translated . O , teach me how you look , and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius ... give him curses , yet he gives me love . Helena : O that my prayers could such affection move ! Hermia : The more I hate ...
... give to be to you translated . O , teach me how you look , and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius ... give him curses , yet he gives me love . Helena : O that my prayers could such affection move ! Hermia : The more I hate ...
Contents
Foundation Craft | 3 |
The Body | 15 |
The State of Readiness | 23 |
Copyright | |
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actor alliteration Antony audience Autolycus beat begin Benedick Berowne blank verse body breath character character's Claudio connected death Demetrius Desdemona Edgar Edmund emotional energy exercise explore eyes Falstaff father feel fool forward givens Gloucester Goneril Hamlet hath hear heart Heightened Circumstances Helena Hermia human husband Iago iambic iambic pentameter imagination irony Isabella journey Juliet King King Lear Lady Macbeth language Lear Leontes listen look Lysander meaning Merchant of Venice mouth move murder muscles Oberon Olivia onomatopoeia Othello pain passion pause Phoebe physical play Posthumus prose Puck push realise rehearsal release reveal rhyming couplet rhythm Richard Romeo Rosalind scene Second Circle sense Shakespeare Shylock Silvius soliloquy sound speak speech stay stop structure syllables tension thee thou thought Titania tongue Tybalt understand Viola vocal voice vowels walk wife Winter's Tale word