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Playing Shakespeare

Author : John Barton
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307773914
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Playing Shakespeare written by John Barton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Clues to Acting Shakespeare

Author : Wesley Van Tassel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1581158211
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Clues to Acting Shakespeare written by Wesley Van Tassel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A workhorse of a workbook!"—Library Journal. American actors, fear Shakespeare no more! Through a series of inspiring, easy-to-follow exercises, an acclaimed director and drama coach shows both students and experienced actors how to break down the verse, support the words, understand the images, and use the text to create vibrant, living performances. This popular guide—more than TK,000 copies sold—has been revised and expanded to include the unique challenges facing teachers and their students in performing Shakespeare’s works, as well as time-tested tools for overcoming these obstacles. Effective delivery, correct breathing, scansion, phrasing, structure and rhythm, caesura, and more are covered. For text analysis and character interpretation, both classical British training and American methods are explored. In addition to ongoing, long-term practice exercises, Clues to Acting Shakespeare offers a one-day brush-up section to prep actors cast to play Shakespearean roles immediately. • Long term practice exercises and quick one-day brush-ups for auditions Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Clues to Acting Shakespeare (Third Edition)

Author : Wesley Van Tassel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621536637
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis Clues to Acting Shakespeare (Third Edition) by : Wesley Van Tassel

Download or read book Clues to Acting Shakespeare (Third Edition) written by Wesley Van Tassel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A workhorse of a book! Beautifully conceived and executed. Clues to Acting Shakespeare is a no-brainer purchase for acting collections in all libraries.” —Library Journal Clues to Acting Shakespeare has become a popular guide for actors, directors, teachers and Shakespeare enthusiasts, selling over 15,000 copies of previous editions. This third edition retains the second edition’s unique solutions to challenges that face directors and actors at advanced levels and is expanded to include an entirely new section for amateur and community theatre groups. In this new edition, readers will be delighted to find: New section to aid community theatres to perform Shakespeare’s plays, including five recorded workshops of community theatre actors coached and trained by the author Updates to the successful sections on training student actors (MFA and BFA programs), and professional actors (including audition tips)—highlighted by twenty author-coached workshops with professional and advanced student actors Improved section for teachers of high school and child actors with worksheets and sample lesson plans New exercises and resources for all levels of acting and production To aid professionals, Clues to Acting Shakespeare offers a one-day brush-up for auditions and preparation to play Shakespeare immediately. Text analysis, character studies, and both classical British training and American methods are explored. The exercises and recorded workshops provide inspiring advice to all actors and demonstrate concepts discussed throughout the book. The critical skills required for acting Shakespeare, including scansion, phrasing, caesura, breathing, speech structure, antithesis, and more are covered in detail. The comprehensive exercises using the Bard’s plays and sonnets teach actors to break down the verse, support the words, understand the imagery, and use the text to create vibrant performances.

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare

Author : Patrick Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135862265
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Acting Shakespeare written by Patrick Tucker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mastering Shakespeare

Author : Scott Kaiser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1581159609
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Mastering Shakespeare written by Scott Kaiser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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's Advice to the Players

Author : Sir Peter Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849433550
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Advice to the Players written by Sir Peter Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Will Power

Author : John Basil
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557836663
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Will Power written by John Basil and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a guide for actors which outlines a three-week process for performing Shakespeare's plays.

Subjects of Advice

Author : Ivan Lupić
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812296435
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Subjects of Advice written by Ivan Lupić and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Subjects of Advice, Ivan Lupić uncovers the rich interconnectedness of dramatic art and the culture of counsel in the early modern period. While counsel was an important form of practical knowledge, with concrete political consequences, it was also an ingrained cultural habit, a feature of obligatory mental, moral, and political hygiene. To be a Renaissance subject, Lupić claims, one had to reckon with the advice of others. Lupić examines this reckoning in a variety of sixteenth-century dramatic contexts. The result is an original account of the foundational role that counsel played in the development of Renaissance drama. Lupić begins by considering the figure of Thomas More, whose influential argument about counsel as a form of performance in Utopia set the agenda for the entire century. Resisting linear narratives and recovering, instead, the simultaneity of radically different kinds of dramatic experience, he shows the vitality of later dramatic engagements with More's legacy through an analysis of the moral interlude staged within Sir Thomas More, a play possibly coauthored by Shakespeare. More also helps explain the complex use of counsel in Senecan drama, from the neo-Latin plays of George Buchanan, discussed in connection with Buchanan's political writings, to the historical tragedies of the mid-sixteenth century. If tyranny and exemplarity are the keywords for early Elizabethan drama of counsel, for the plays of Christopher Marlowe it is friendship. Lupić considers Marlowe's interest in friendship and counsel, most notably in Edward II, alongside earlier dramatic treatments, thus exposing the pervasive fantasy of the ideal counselor as another self. Subjects of Advice concludes by placing King Lear in relation to its dramatic sources to demonstrate Shakespeare's deliberate dispersal of counsel throughout his play. Counsel's customary link to plain and fearless speech becomes in Shakespeare's hands a powerful instrument of poetic and dramatic expression.

Thinking Shakespeare

Author : Barry Edelstein
Publisher : Spark Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781411498723
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Shakespeare written by Barry Edelstein and published by Spark Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Shakespeare gives the actor practical advice about how to make Shakespeare's words feel spontaneous, passionate, and real. Based on Barry Edelstein's twenty-year career directing Shakespeare's plays, this book provides the tools that actors need to fully understand and express the power of Shakespeare's language.

Thinking Shakespeare (Revised Edition)

Author : Barry Edelstein
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 155936890X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Shakespeare (Revised Edition) written by Barry Edelstein and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Speak the Speech!

Author : Rhona Silverbush
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0571211224
Total Pages : 1089 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Speak the Speech! written by Rhona Silverbush and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-09-18 with total page 1089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed guide to approaching Shakespearean text, Speak the speech! contains everything an actor needs to select and prepare a Shakespeare monologue for classwork, auditions, or performance. Included herein are over 150 monologues. Each one is placed in context with a brief introduction, is carefully punctuated in the manner that best illustrates its meaning, and is painstakingly and thoroughly annotated. Each is also accompanied by commentary that will spark the actor's imagination by exploring how the interrelationship of meter and the choice of words and sounds yields clues to character and performance. And throughout the book sidebars relate historical, topical, technical, and other useful and entertaining information relevant to the text. In addition, the authors include an overview of poetic and rhetorical elements, brief synopses of all the plays, and a comprehensive index along with other guidelines that will help readers locate the perfect monologue for their needs.

Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan

Author : Tiffany Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198186819
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan written by Tiffany Stern and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up until now, facts about theatrical rehearsal have been considered irrecoverable. But in this groundbreaking new study, Tiffany Stern gathers together two centuries' worth of historical material which shows how actors received and responded to their parts, and how rehearsal affected thecreation and revision of plays. Plotting theatrical change over time, from the mid-sixteenth to the late eighteenth century, this book will revolutionize the fields of textual and theatre history alike.

Brutus and Other Heroines

Author : Harriet Walter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848422933
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Brutus and Other Heroines written by Harriet Walter and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich journey of discovery through the greatest roles in Shakespeare, both female and male.

Shakespeare's Advice to the Players

Author : Sir Peter Hall
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 1350262730
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Advice to the Players written by Sir Peter Hall and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Contested Will

Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416541632
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Contested Will written by James Shapiro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.

The Shakespeare Stealer

Author : Gary Blackwood
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101200030
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Stealer written by Gary Blackwood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful adveture full of humor and heart set in Elizabethan England! Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet"--or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform. As full of twists and turns as a London alleyway, this entertaining novel is rich in period details, colorful characters, villainy, and drama. * "A fast-moving historical novel that introduces an important era with casual familiarity." --School Library Journal, starred review "Readers will find much to like in Widge, and plenty to enjoy in this gleeful romp through olde England" --Kirkus Reviews "Excels in the lively depictions of Elizabethan stagecraft and street life." --Publishers Weekly An ALA Notable Book

Shakespeare on Toast

Author : Ben Crystal
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178578031X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on Toast written by Ben Crystal and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actor, producer and director Ben Crystal revisits his acclaimed book on Shakespeare for the 400th anniversary of his death, updating and adding three new chapters. Shakespeare on Toast knocks the stuffing from the staid old myth of the Bard, revealing the man and his plays for what they really are: modern, thrilling, uplifting drama. The bright words and colourful characters of the greatest hack writer are brought brilliantly to life, sweeping cobwebs from the Bard – his language, his life, his world, his sounds, his craft. Crystal reveals man and work as relevant, accessible and alive – and, astonishingly, finds Shakespeare's own voice amid the poetry. Whether you're studying Shakespeare for the first time or you've never set foot near one of his plays but have always wanted to, this book smashes down the walls that have been built up around this untouchable literary figure. Told in five fascinating Acts, this is quick, easy and good for you. Just like beans on toast.