Speaking ShakespeareThis 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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... Break too ! ( The Winter's Tale , III.ii ) - The first set of vowels - ' Woe the while / O ' - opens up the feeling . Then the vowels begin to close as Paulina struggles to maintain control . Consonantst's and k's work to hold her ...
... Break too ! ( The Winter's Tale , III.ii ) - The first set of vowels - ' Woe the while / O ' - opens up the feeling . Then the vowels begin to close as Paulina struggles to maintain control . Consonantst's and k's work to hold her ...
Page 245
... break in the next , short line , after Isabella's ' And shamed life a hateful ' . There is a pause of two beats here , just before Claudio launches into an eleven - line thought . Perhaps it's there so he can gather his breath and heart ...
... break in the next , short line , after Isabella's ' And shamed life a hateful ' . There is a pause of two beats here , just before Claudio launches into an eleven - line thought . Perhaps it's there so he can gather his breath and heart ...
Page 319
... breaks its conventions and thereby wins hearts . With this in mind , let's look at the prose section here . Olivia and the ... break in form is that the disguised Viola seems to have no problem with it and asks a direct question : " The ...
... breaks its conventions and thereby wins hearts . With this in mind , let's look at the prose section here . Olivia and the ... break in form is that the disguised Viola seems to have no problem with it and asks a direct question : " The ...
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