Speech and DramaSteinerBooks, 2007 M10 24 - 418 pages 19 lectures, Dornach, April 10, 1921 and September 5-23, 1924 (CW 282) This course was designed for students and professionals in the stage arts and given in the Section for the Arts of Speech and Music School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum. Rudolf Steiner begins with a fundamental and spiritually-rooted appreciation of human speech and what actually takes place during human communication. Speech is a spiritual activity as well as an art form, lending itself to real interaction with both higher spiritual worlds and the human world of social conversation. Steiner shows that speech is a powerful tool for any serious dramatist in conveying the reality of worlds, whether visible or invisible, to the individual souls in the audience. This is an essential book for anyone involved in speech work, communication arts, and many kinds of therapies. This volume is a translation from German of Sprachgestaltung und Dramatische Kunst (GA 282). |
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... which consists in giving point and emphasis to certain words , is modified in the recitation of epic by the presence of rhythm and metre . The hexameter . page 23 43 Reading from Goethe's Achilleis . The dactyl and the anapaest 13.
... recite . The fact is , the inadequacy and poverty of stage speaking as it is at present will never be rectified , nor will the general dis- satisfaction that is felt on the matter among the performers themselves be dispelled , until we ...
... recite . He said he would begin with a poem by the tutor of Frederick William IV , a poem about Kepler . I happened to know it , -a beautiful poem , but terribly long , covering many pages . I said : ' But won't it be rather long ? ' He ...
... recitation , declamation , etc. These methods , however , generally set to work in a very peculiar way . Suppose you wanted to teach someone to plough , and never took any trouble to see what the plough was like , or the field , did not ...
... recitation or declamation before an audience . ) The speaker must feel : When I come to a vowel , I am coming near to man himself ; but directly I come to a consonant , it is things I am catching at , things that are outside . If the ...