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.

An Actor's Guide to Performing Shakespeare
An Actor's Guide to Performing Shakespeare

Author: Madd Harold

Publisher: Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781580650465

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Madd Harold strips Shakespeare of his mystique and gives the professional actor, drama student, and theatre director access to unambiguous and easy-to-master techniques used by great actors throughout the ages.

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare
Secrets of Acting Shakespeare

Author: Patrick Tucker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1135862265

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Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn't a book that gently instructs. It's a passionate, yes-you-can designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. By explaining how Elizabethan actors had only their own lines and not entire playscripts, Patrick Tucker shows how much these plays work by ear. Secrets of Acting Shakespeare is a book for actors trained and amateur, as well as for anyone curious about how the Elizabethan theater worked.

Speaking in Shakespeare's Voice
Speaking in Shakespeare's Voice

Author: Linda Gates

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 081013991X

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Speaking in Shakespeare's Voice: A Guide for American Actors is a book for undergraduate and graduate students of acting as well as for the professional who would like to perform Shakespeare with the skill of a classical actor. It is also valuable for European actors interested in performing Shakespeare in American English and British actors who would like to explore Shakespeare from an American perspective. This guide focuses on the technical elements of voice and speech, including breathing, resonance, and diction, as well as providing an introduction to verse speaking and scansion and to Shakespeare’s rhetorical devices, such as antithesis, alliteration, onomatopoeia, irony, metaphor, and wordplay. These topics are annotated with examples from Shakespeare’s plays to demonstrate how an actor can apply the lessons to actual performance. The book also explores the history of Shakespearean performance in the United States and provides guidance on current editions of Shakespeare’s text from the Folio to online Open Source Shakespeare. A helpful appendix offers examples of two-person scenes and contextualized monologues.

Will Power
Will Power

Author: John Basil

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781557836663

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Provides a guide for actors which outlines a three-week process for performing Shakespeare's plays.

Mastering Shakespeare
Mastering Shakespeare

Author: Scott Kaiser

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-01-12

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1581159609

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Who says only the British can act Shakespeare? In this unique guide, a veteran acting coach shatters that myth with a boldly American approach to the Bard. Written in the form of a play, this volume's "characters" include a master teacher and 16 students grappling with the challenges of acting Shakespeare. Using actual speeches from 32 of Shakespeare's plays, each of the book's six "scenes" offer proven solutions to such acting problems as delivering spoken subtext, using physical actions to orchestrate a speech, creating images within a speech, dividing a speech into measures, and much more.

Shakespeare Without Fear
Shakespeare Without Fear

Author: Joseph Olivieri

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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SHAKESPEARE WITHOUT FEAR guides novice actors through Shakespearean verse, helping them understand dialogue, its meaning and purpose, and finally, helping them interpret it in their acting. It teaches actors how to use verse scansion, rhetoric, and vocal scoring to obtain the desired results from their own acting as well as from others in a scene. Written in the format of a dialogue between a student and an instructor, SHAKESPEARE WITHOUT FEAR explores a student's point of view, addressing the concerns of a first-time Shakespearean actor. The author writes with a sense of humor in a clear, unintimidating style.

Freeing Shakespeare's Voice
Freeing Shakespeare's Voice

Author: Kristin Linklater

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1559366389

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A passionate exploration of the process of comprehending and speaking the words of William Shakespeare. Detailing exercises and analyzing characters' speech and rhythms, Linklater provides the tools to increase understanding and make Shakespeare's words one's own.

Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time
Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time

Author: John Astington

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-09-30

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0521192501

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Perfect for courses, this book is an account of the first actors in the plays of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jonson.

Thinking Shakespeare (Revised Edition)
Thinking Shakespeare (Revised Edition)

Author: Barry Edelstein

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Published: 2018-07-03

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 155936890X

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Thinking Shakespeare gives theater artists practical advice about how to make Shakespeare’s words feel spontaneous, passionate, and real. Based on Barry Edelstein’s thirty-year career directing Shakespeare’s plays, this book provides the tools that artists need to fully understand and express the power of Shakespeare’s language.