Dialects for the Stage
Dialects for the Stage

Author: Evangeline Machlin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-02-28

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1135469857

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Dialect work is one of the actor's most challenging tasks. Need to know a Russian accent? Playing a German countess or a Midwestern farmhand? These and more accents – from Yiddish to French Canadian – are clearly explained in Evangeline Machlin's classic work. Now available in a book-and-downloadable resources format, Evangeline Machlin's Dialects for the Stage is based on a method of dialect acquisition she developed during her years working with students at Boston University's Division of Theatre. During her long career, Evangeline Machlin trained such actors as Steve McQueen, Lee Grant, Suzanne Pleshette, Joanne Woodward, and Faye Dunaway.

Stage Dialects
Stage Dialects

Author: Jerry Blunt

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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Instruction for the actor in imitating the Japanese, Brooklyn, American Southern, standard English, Cockney, Irish, Scots, French, Italian, German, and Russian dialects and/or accents.

More Stage Dialects
More Stage Dialects

Author: Jerry Blunt

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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A guide to the speech of people all over the world, with a focus on pronunciation, rhythm, and altered word order.

Shakespeare's Accents
Shakespeare's Accents

Author: Sonia Massai

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-09

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1108429629

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A history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage focusing on the vocal dimensions of theatrical performance.

American Dialects
American Dialects

Author: Lewis Herman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-02

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 113585694X

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This standard text, now in paperback for the first time-- the companion volume to Foreign Dialects-- AmericanDialects offers representative dialects of every major section of the United States. In each case, a general description and history of the dialect is given, followed by an analysis of vowel and consonant peculiarities, of its individual lilt and rhythm, and of its grammar variations. There are also lists of the idioms and idiomatic expressions that distinguish each dialect and exercises using them. American Dialects also includes musical inflection charts and diagrams showing the placement of lips, tongue, and breath.

Foreign Dialects
Foreign Dialects

Author: Lewis Herman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1136784500

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Most actors and directors have struggled with the problem of needing to imitate foreign dialects. Marguerite and Lewis Herman have created an essential tool for actors, directors and writers aiming toward the most authentic performances possible. Foreign Dialects contains an extensive repertoire of dialects that will assist the actor in the preparation for the most difficult foreign roles. Now in paperback, this classic text offers the director or producer a quick, convenient aid for correcting actors and evaluating applicants for authenticity and dialect ability. In addition, it guides those writing fiction as well as radio, movie, and television scripts. Thirty foreign dialects are provided, with character studies, speech peculiarities, and examples of the dialects in easy-to-read phonetic monologues--including Cockney, British, Irish, Scottish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Greek and Yiddish.