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Author | : John Barton |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2010-11-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 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.
Author | : Louis Montrose |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1996-06 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780226534831 |
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Examines the role of Elizabethan drama in the shape of cultural belief, values, and understanding of political authority.
Author | : Patrick Tucker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 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.
Author | : M.M. Mahood |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1134673655 |
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PUBLICITY TITLE Will appear in 1998 Theatre Craft leaflet and in a New Theatre Quarterly advert Re-issue of hardback published by CUP - this received exceptional review coverage M. Mahood is an all-time old-school Great: well known for Shakespeare's Wordplay and her Penguin editions of Twelfth Night and Merchant of Venice The Pb will include a new appendix aimed at helping directors and actors Will appeal to actors and directors, critics and students The six studies of individual plays offers models for students to follow in studying and writing about the other thirty plays. Includes an index of characters as well as a detailed general index - very user friendly
Author | : Harriet Walter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | : 9781848422933 |
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A rich journey of discovery through the greatest roles in Shakespeare, both female and male.
Author | : Scott Kaiser |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2012-01-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 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.
Author | : John Southworth |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2011-10-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0752472445 |
Download Shakespeare the Player Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : John Barton |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0713687738 |
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John Barton is Advisory Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and has directed some of the greatest Shakespeare productions of our time. His book, Playing Shakespeare, is a transcript of his televised workshops with some of our finest Shakespearean actors: Peggy Ashcroft, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, Patrick Stewart and David Suchet. This new edition contains a DVD with 80 minutes of video featuring John Barton in conversation with Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Jane Lapotaire discussing changes in approaches to Shakespeare's text since the book first published. This edition also features a foreword by Michael Boyd. This is a highly readable approach to understanding Shakespeare's text and unlocking the hidden stage directions and actors clues that reside in his verse. As Barton explains, "when an actor becomes aware of them they will find Shakespeare himself starts to direct them."
Author | : Julian Curry |
Publisher | : Nick Hern Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781848420779 |
Download Shakespeare on Stage Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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
Author | : Barry Edelstein |
Publisher | : Theatre Communications Group |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2018-07-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 155936890X |
Download Thinking Shakespeare (Revised Edition) Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.