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 92
... imagination . The imaginative actor without knowledge can't speak verse ; the knowledgeable one without imagination can't make sense . The iambic is the underlying rhythm . Its energy will sustain you through a play in the same way that ...
... imagination . The imaginative actor without knowledge can't speak verse ; the knowledgeable one without imagination can't make sense . The iambic is the underlying rhythm . Its energy will sustain you through a play in the same way that ...
Page 191
... imagination to connect to the language with meaning and precision , and make it our own . Such ownership will enable ... IMAGINATIVE 191 The Imaginative Exploration of the Text.
... imagination to connect to the language with meaning and precision , and make it our own . Such ownership will enable ... IMAGINATIVE 191 The Imaginative Exploration of the Text.
Page 213
... imagination : we all speak every day about people , places and things and , as we speak , we know them . It's what ... imagination there is no point in speaking the speech . And when it is in your imagination it is easy to speak . Here ...
... imagination : we all speak every day about people , places and things and , as we speak , we know them . It's what ... imagination there is no point in speaking the speech . And when it is in your imagination it is easy to speak . Here ...
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