Renaissance Drama in ActionRenaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today. |
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... actors and directors to whom I spoke or whose views I read during the course of writing this book acknowledged the challenges posed by the language . The director Sam Mendes , for example , describes the first read - through for his ...
... Actor ' ( probably John Webster ) underlined the importance of the spoken word : Sit in a full Theatre , and you will ... actors : A great part of the grace of this ( I confess ) lay in action ; yet can no action ever be gracious , where ...
... actors need to project with much greater force ) . But what performances there cannot demonstrate ( except , perhaps , at occasional ' authentic ' presentations ) is the difference in the actual sound made by the voices of Elizabethan ...
... actor to deal with , and I suspect that any performer would find the following obscure and obsolete mixture daunting ... actors at least know they need to look the words up . A more insidious problem is posed by words that still exist in ...
... actors often agonise in rehearsal over things which turn out apparently to be of little concern to an audience seeing the finished production , it is precisely because rehearsals do explore the text in such detail that actors learn ...
Contents
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Speeches well pronounced with action lively | 58 |
outdoor playing spaces | 109 |
indoor playing spaces | 144 |
some comic irresolutions | 177 |
Renaissance drama | 197 |
New plays for old Richard Brome and Stephen | 217 |
Postscript | 233 |
Bibliography | 245 |
Index | 259 |
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Renaissance Drama in Action: An Introduction to Aspects of Theatre Practice ... Martin White No preview available - 1998 |