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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... pushing a partner or using a wall . If you really needed to push the wall down because someone you loved was trapped , you wouldn't lock shoulders and knees or be back on your heels . You would begin to touch the huge power you have in ...
... pushing a partner or using a wall . If you really needed to push the wall down because someone you loved was trapped , you wouldn't lock shoulders and knees or be back on your heels . You would begin to touch the huge power you have in ...
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... push is exhausting , and increases in intensity when you are required to be more emotional . It can sound aggressive . • The push down : here the voice is held down in the throat and chest , often in an attempt falsely to lower the ...
... push is exhausting , and increases in intensity when you are required to be more emotional . It can sound aggressive . • The push down : here the voice is held down in the throat and chest , often in an attempt falsely to lower the ...
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... pushing a rock up a hill . You can push the rock slowly or quickly , you can pause , you can push it in different directions , but you have to hold the rock - you can't let it go . • Use a partner to represent the rock . " The rock ...
... pushing a rock up a hill . You can push the rock slowly or quickly , you can pause , you can push it in different directions , but you have to hold the rock - you can't let it go . • Use a partner to represent the rock . " The rock ...
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