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Book Synopsis Two Shakespearean Actors by : Richard Nelson
Download or read book Two Shakespearean Actors written by Richard Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1990-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Nelson's magnificently theatrical play makes this incident the basis for an enthralling exploration of life, backstage and front-of-house, against a backdrop of post-colonial national and cultural assertiveness.
Book Synopsis Two Shakespearean Actors by : R. Nelson
Download or read book Two Shakespearean Actors written by R. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Great Shakespeare Actors by : Stanley Wells
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.
Book Synopsis Playing Shakespeare by : John Barton
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.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare on Stage by : Julian Curry
Download or read book Shakespeare on Stage written by Julian Curry and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles. * Brian Cox on Titus Andronicus in Deborah Warner's visceral RSC production * Judi Dench on being directed by Franco Zeffirelli as a twenty-three-year-old Juliet * Ralph Fiennes on Shakespeare's least sympathetic hero Coriolanus * Rebecca Hall on Rosalind in As You Like It, directed by her father, Sir Peter * Derek Jacobi on his hilariously poker-backed Malvolio for Michael Grandage * Jude Law on his Hamlet, a palpable hit in the West End and on Broadway * Adrian Lester on a modern-dress Henry V at the National, during the invasion of Iraq * Ian McKellen on his Macbeth, opposite Judi Dench in Trevor Nunn's RSC production * Helen Mirren on a role she was born for, and has played three times: Cleopatra * Tim Pigott-Smith on Leontes in Peter Hall's Restoration Winter's Tale at the National * Kevin Spacey on his high-tech, modern-dress Richard II * Patrick Stewart on Prospero in Rupert Goold's arctic Tempest for the RSC * Penelope Wilton on Isabella in Jonathan Miller's 'chamber' Measure for Measure The actors discuss their characters, working through the play scene by scene, with refreshing candour and in forensic detail. The result is a masterclass on playing each role, invaluable for other actors and directors, as well as students of Shakespeare - and fascinating for audiences of the plays. Together, the interviews give one of the most comprehensive pictures yet of these characters in performance, and of the choices that these great actors have made in bringing them thrillingly to life. 'These passages of times remembered contribute vividly to the sense of a teemingly creative period when Shakespeare seemed to have been rediscovered.' Trevor Nunn, from his Foreword
Book Synopsis John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor by : Michael A. Morrison
Download or read book John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor written by Michael A. Morrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the Victorian and Edwardian antecedents of Shakespearean performance, this 1997 book situates Barrymore's distinctive contribution in light of past and ensuing tradition.
Book Synopsis What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad by : Richard Nelson
Download or read book What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad written by Richard Nelson and published by Broadway Play Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics Pick "Extraordinary... [Nelson's] stripped-down dramaturgy asks us to care about character more than story, and to see the largest matters in the smallest details." Jesse Green, The New York Times "In this beautiful capstone work, the sense is not so much a resolution as a dissolving; the characters of WHAT HAPPENED? have become unmoored, as if the isolation of the pandemic has caused some permanent psychic dislocation." Peter Marks, The Washington Post Five Stars "WHAT HAPPENED? shines a fierce light on COVID's devastating impact..." Elysa Gardner, New York Stage Review Five Stars "Playwright Richard Nelson completes what he calls his Rhinebeck Panorama with WHAT HAPPENED?: THE MICHAELS ABROAD [which] might be the most powerful of them all... As with the other installments in the series, WHAT HAPPENED? will likely be widely produced..." Steven Suskin, New York Stage Review "This is a play about loss, the inevitable changes wrought by time and circumstance, and finding a way to go on, however haltingly. We may never know fully what happened, but we do go on, and sharing this reality with this family-transforming life into art-lets us know that whatever we went through all those months, we were not alone." Christopher Byrne, Gay City News "WHAT HAPPENED?: THE MICHAELS ABROAD [is] something of a socio-document that can and should be studied for years to come by those who want to know what life was life 'during the pandemic.'" J K Clarke, Theater Pizzazz "Each new piece [of Nelson's series, The Rhinebeck Panorama] has felt like a cool blast of civilization in a world gone mad." David Barbour, Lighting Dimensions
Book Synopsis The Book of Will by : Lauren Gunderson
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.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare in Sable by : Errol Hill
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:
Book Synopsis Secrets of Acting Shakespeare by : Patrick Tucker
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.
Book Synopsis Laurence Olivier and Richard Burton by : Charles River Editors
Download or read book Laurence Olivier and Richard Burton written by Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes the actors' quotes about their lives and careers *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Of all the great actors of the 20th century, none personifies acting royalty more than Laurence Olivier, and some of this is simply due to the fact that he was actually knighted in 1947, along with a lengthy list of other honors that include being named a life peer in 1970 and admission to the Order of Merit in 1984. To speak of The Right Honourable Lord Laurence Olivier is not a figure of speech but rather a fact. Of course, in addition to the literal sense of the term, there is undeniably a manner in which Laurence Olivier qualifies as acting royalty, as it is not for nothing that Spencer Tracy once referred to Olivier as "the greatest actor in the English-speaking world" (Bacall). It is also important to note that Tracy refers to Olivier not as a film or theater actor specifically, because much of Olivier's lofty standing derives from his ability to successfully navigate different mediums like stage, film, and television. The breadth of mediums in which he worked, the various roles he inhabited within them (actor, producer, director), and the formidable time span of his career lend Olivier's career a scope of perhaps unmatched magnitude. Indeed, Laurence Olivier worked for so long and was so successful that few actors receive the level of visibility that he still enjoys, even more than two decades after his death. While his theatrical performances exist only as memories, his cinematic adaptations of several of Shakespeare's most famous plays remain the most canonical even to this day. Hamlet, for example, has been produced for the screen by several famous directors, but his version, released in 1948, is the most well-known and best-received. It is through his films that viewers also gain a full appreciation of his creative style, as Olivier assumed full authorial control (from actor to director to producer) over many of his films, particularly the Shakespearean ones. In this sense, it is appropriate to claim that Laurence Olivier was not only a storied actor but also an artist who worked best when enjoying full authority over his productions. In the 1960s, the most popular actor in the world was Richard Burton, a hard-drinking Welshman who was nevertheless so professional that he was one of the preeminent stage performers of his day. In fact, he performed Shakespeare so magnificently that he was compared to British legend Laurence Olivier, and that success ultimately led to a film career that earned him 7 Academy Award nominations, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for Best Actor. Given his accomplishments on the stage and in Hollywood, Burton became one of the world's most recognizable leading men, so it seemed fitting that he engaged in one of Hollywood's most legendary romances with Elizabeth Taylor while on the set of Cleopatra, one of the era's most notorious movies. In fact, his tumultuous relationship with Taylor, which included two marriages, dominated tabloids and remains the one thing most people associate with Burton today, despite the rest of his accomplishments. Burton's high-profile marriage to Taylor helped bring attention, but it also led to more self-destructive behavior, and in a sense it represented the peak of Burton's career. Over the last decade of his life, Burton began appearing in mediocre films, and due to his declining health and constant drunkenness, his performances were mediocre as well, often involving incoherent slurring. The fast life ultimately caught up with him in 1984, when a cerebral hemorrhage killed him at the age of 58. Fittingly, it was the same cause of death that befell his alcoholic father in 1957, just as Burton was at the precipice of Hollywood stardom.
Book Synopsis The Long-Lost Secret Diary Of The World's Worst Shakespearean Actor by : Tim Collins
Download or read book The Long-Lost Secret Diary Of The World's Worst Shakespearean Actor written by Tim Collins and published by The Salariya Book Company. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of hilarious fictional diaries put us inside the heads of hapless figures from history in frazzling situations. Robert, a boy living in Southwark in early 17th century London, finds himself employed as an actor in the Globe theatre, playing roles written by the greatest playwright of the age: William Shakespeare. But when the coronation of a new king, James I, threatens the future of the theatre, Robert has to come up with a cunning plan to save the company. If he doesn’t succeed, Robert will have to go back to collecting dog poo for a living. ‘Get Real’ fact boxes feature throughout, providing historical context and further information, as well as a timeline, historical biographies and a glossary in the end matter.
Book Synopsis Enter the Players by : Thomas S. Hischak
Download or read book Enter the Players written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each player is discussed in a brief biography, followed by a complete list of every play and character they performed in New York. Also included are plays and musicals that were heading to New York but closed before opening. Cast replacements are indicated as well as Tony nominations and awards. Within Enter the Players, each actor comes alive as his or her career is revealed step-by-step, role-by-role. This book is an invaluable reference work and provides hours of fascinating browsing for anyone who loves theatre."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Tragedy of Titus Andronicus written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare for Two by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Shakespeare for Two written by William Shakespeare and published by Drama. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've got to work up a classical two-person scene for audition, performance, or practice. Poring through Shakespeare's plays to locate material that's workable, accessible, and compatible with your needs would take days if not weeks. Fortunately Douglas Newell presents a compact, complete alternative in Shakespeare for Two. Following the same format as his successful and essential Shakespeare for One, Newell has dug out important and well-known dialogues as well as buried treasures, presenting an unprecedented array of Shakespearean scenes. In addition, Shakespeare for Two gives you the context vital to understanding and playing each scene, including carefully crafted plot and scene summaries, a guide to pronunciation, definitions of obscure words no longer in common usage, and tools to help locate the right scene for your purposes. Shakespeare For Two is the invaluable, comprehensive resource that actors contemplating Shakespearean scene work can not afford to be without.
Book Synopsis The Shakespeare Riots by : Nigel Cliff
Download or read book The Shakespeare Riots written by Nigel Cliff and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text
