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Author: Russell Jackson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521477345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirteen actors describe the Shakespearean roles they played with the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1987 and 1991. The anthology includes the Company's highly successful adaptation of the Henry VI plays retitled The Plantagenets.
Author: John Barton
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2010-11-10
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0307773914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlaying Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by explicating Shakespeare’s verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare’s most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.
Author: Bertram Fields
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2005-03-15
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0060775599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare's plays departed completely from the rules of classical drama. They spanned too much time, had too many settings, and combined humor with tragedy.
Author: Robert Smallwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-12-08
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521811316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fifth volume in this popular series of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
Author: Martha W. Driver
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0786491655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.
Author: Robert Smallwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-12-10
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780521554206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1998 book is the fourth volume of essays by twelve actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Author: Wendy Greenhill
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 9780431075259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers insights into key plays, Shakespearean theatre, players and actors. Suitable for Key Stage 3 English work.
Author: Stanley Wells
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0198703295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreat Shakespeare Actors provides a series of well-informed, well-written, illuminating, and entertaining accounts of many of the most famous stage performers of Shakespeare in both England and America, offering a concise, actor-centred history of Shakespeare on the stage.
Author: Sir Peter Hall
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 2022-08-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1350262730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe best-selling guide to acting Shakespeare in a new smaller and lighter handbook size. Shakespeare tells the actor when to go fast and when to go slow; when to pause, when to come in on cue and when to accent a word. His text is full of such clues. He tells the actor when but never tells him why or how. That is up to the actor. Much like bringing a musical score to life, Peter Hall guides us to 'speak the speech'. An essential text for classical training at drama school and an invaluable reference book for actors and directors working on Shakespeare productions. Peter Hall makes watching or reading Shakespeare a richer experience, for audiences as well as actors.
