The Players' Advice to Hamlet

The Players' Advice to Hamlet

Author: David Wiles

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-02-06

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1108498876

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Outlining a classical 'rhetorical' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.1550-1800 thought about acting.


Stage Directions in Hamlet

Stage Directions in Hamlet

Author: Hardin L. Aasand

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780838639467

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The subject of stage directions in 'Hamlet', those brief semiotic codes that are embellished by historical, theatrical, and cultural considerations, produces a rigorous examination in the fifteen essays contained in this collection. This volume encompasses essays that are guardedly inductive in their critical approaches, as well as those that critique modern productions that attempt to achieve Shakespearean effect through a modern aesthetic. The volume also includes essays that enunciate the production of stage business as a cultural interplay between productions and social agencies outside the theater.


The First Quarto of Hamlet

The First Quarto of Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780521653909

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The first quarto of Hamlet is radically different from the second quarto and Folio versions of the play, and about half their length. But despite its uneven verbal texture and simpler characterisation, the first quarto presents its own workable alternatives to the longer texts, reordering and combining key plot elements, and even including a unique scene between Horatio and the Queen. This new critical edition is designed for students, scholars and actors who are intrigued by the first printed text of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Although the first quarto has been reprinted many times, there is no other modernised edition in print. Irace's introduction outlines views of its origins, its special features, and its surprisingly rich performance history; her textual notes point out differences between the first quarto and the longer second quarto and Folio versions and offer alternatives which actors or directors might choose for specific productions.


The Masks of Hamlet

The Masks of Hamlet

Author: Marvin Rosenberg

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 1006

ISBN-13: 9780874134803

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Every reader is an actor according to Rosenberg. To prepare the actor-reader for insights, Rosenberg draws on major intepretations of the play worldwide, in theatre and in criticism, wherever possible from the first known performances to the present day. The book is rich and provocative on every question about the play.


Shakespeare's Advice to the Players

Shakespeare's Advice to the Players

Author: Sir Peter Hall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-06-18

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1849433550

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The 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.


Playing Shakespeare

Playing Shakespeare

Author: John Barton

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2010-11-10

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0307773914

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Playing 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.


Hamlet

Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher:

Published: 2022-03-24

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781638435020

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