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Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing

Author : Meredith Anne Skura
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226761800
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing written by Meredith Anne Skura and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Renaissance, all the world may have been a stage and all its people players, but Shakespeare was also an actor on the literal stage. Meredith Anne Skura asks what it meant to be an actor in Shakespeare's England and shows why a knowledge of actual theatrical practices is essential for understanding both Shakespeare's plays and the theatricality of everyday life in early modern England. Despite the obvious differences between our theater and Shakespeare's, sixteenth-century testimony suggests that the experience of acting has not changed much over the centuries. Beginning with a psychoanalytically informed account of acting today, Skura shows how this intense and ambivalent experience appears not only in literal references to acting in Shakespearean drama but also in recurring narrative concerns, details of language, and dramatic strategies used to engage the audience. Looking at the plays in the context of both public and private worlds outside the theater, Skura rereads the canon to identify new configurations in the plays and new ways of understanding theatrical self-consciousness in Renaissance England. Rich in theatrical, psychoanalytic, biographical, and historical insight, this book will be invaluable to students of Shakespeare and instructive to all readers interested in the dynamics of performance.

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare

Author : Patrick Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135862338
Total Pages : 316 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 316 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.

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.

A Shakespearean Actor Prepares

Author : Adrian Brine
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
ISBN 13 : 9781575250595
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book A Shakespearean Actor Prepares written by Adrian Brine and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how to prepare to act in one of Shakespeare's play through an investigation of the language used by the playwright and a true interpretation of his meaning.

Great Shakespeare Actors

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198703295
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Great Shakespeare Actors written by Stanley Wells and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and Kenneth Branagh. Individual chapters tell the story of their subjects' careers, but together these overlapping tales combine to offer a succinct, actor-centred history of Shakespearian theatrical performance. Stanley Wells examines what it takes to be a great Shakespeare actor and then offers a concise sketch of each actor's career in Shakespeare, an assessment of their specific talents and claims to greatness, and an account, drawing on contemporary reviews, biographies, anecdotes, and, for some of the more recent actors, the author's personal memories of their most notable performances in Shakespeare roles.

Mastering Shakespeare

Author : Scott Kaiser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1581159609
Total Pages : 429 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 429 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.

The Book of Will

Author : Lauren Gunderson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822237725
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Will written by Lauren Gunderson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.

Shakespeare in Sable

Author : Errol Hill
Publisher : Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in Sable written by Errol Hill and published by Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Acting in Shakespeare

Author : Robert Cohen
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Acting in Shakespeare by : Robert Cohen

Download or read book Acting in Shakespeare written by Robert Cohen and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting in Shakespeare helps actors at all levels develop the skills they need to perform in Shakespeare plays. Lessons proceed in carefully graduated stps from simple, single lines to short speeches to more difficult, sophisticated scenes. A wealth of historical information and insightful descriptions of Shakespearean times and players bring Shakespeare's work within the actor's reach.

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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Book Synopsis Will Power by : John Basil

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.

Actors Talk about Shakespeare

Author : Mary Z. Maher
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879103644
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Actors Talk about Shakespeare written by Mary Z. Maher and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers interviews with American, Canadian, and British actors who speak about the challenges and rewards of performing Shakespeare's works.

Shakespeare Without Fear

Author : Joseph Olivieri
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Without Fear written by Joseph Olivieri and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Shakespeare the Player

Author : John Southworth
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752472445
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare the Player written by John Southworth and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man of the Millennium' he may be but William Shakespeare is a shadowy historical figures. His writings have been analysed exhaustively but much of his life remains a mystery. This controversial biography aims to redress the balance. To his contemporaries, Shakespeare was known not as a playwright but as an actor, yet this has been largely ignored or marginalised by most modern writers. here John Southworth overturns traditional images of the Bard and his work, arguing that Shakespeare cannot be separated from his profession as a player any more than he can be separated from his works. Only by approaching Shakespeare's life from this new angle can we hope to learn or understand anything new about him. Following Shakespeare's life as an actor as he learns his craft and begins work on his own plays, Southworth presents the Bard and his plays in their proper context for the first time. Groundbreaking, contentious and a work of deep scholarship and understanding, 'Shakespeare the Player' should change the way we think about the English language's greatest artist.

Shakespeare and the Actors

Author : Arthur Colby Sprague
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Actors written by Arthur Colby Sprague and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1944 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best Actors in the World

Author : David Grote
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313012741
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Best Actors in the World written by David Grote and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare knew actors because he was one. The first book-length study of its kind, this volume investigates Shakespeare as a member of his acting company, dating and casting all the plays they presented from 1594 to 1614, and exploring the effects of actors on his writing. Much has been written about Shakespeare and a great deal is known about the Elizabethan theater. Yet little has been done to examine Shakespeare in relation to his acting company. This book casts light on Shakespeare's life in drama and the creation and staging of his plays. More precisely than any other work, it establishes the dates for his company's productions, exploring the varied and profound influences actors had on the works of Renaissance dramatists, and giving us a unique look at the man who knew his actors best of all. As a member of the newly organized Chamberlain's Men, a company that rose to fame in the London theater, Shakespeare experienced the numerous crises, both personal and political, that nearly destroyed the company at the construction of the Globe. Grote describes the company's reorganization as the King's Men, which led to the writing of Shakespeare's great tragedies, as well as the trials of the plague years, Shakespeare's retirement from the stage, the development of writers to replace him, and the burning of the Globe.

Clues to Acting Shakespeare

Author : Wesley Van Tassel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1581158211
Total Pages : 288 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 288 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.

The Death of the Actor

Author : Martin Buzacott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136120688
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book The Death of the Actor written by Martin Buzacott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Death of the Actor Martin Buzacott launches an all-out attack on contemporary theatrical practice and performance theory which identifies the actor, rather than the director, as the key creative force in the performance of Shakespeare. Because actors are absent from the site of Shakespearean meaning, he argues, the illusion of their centrality is sustained only by a rhetoric of heroism, violence and imperialism.