Speaking Shakespeare /
Rodenburg uses ideas of dramatic resonance, breathing, placement, and preparation to show how to speak and act Shakespeare.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2002.
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| Edition: | 1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- Foundation craft. Foundation craft ; The body ; The state of readiness ; Breath ; Support ; Freeing the voice ; Placing the free voice ; Consolidation ; Deepening the work ; Range and resonance ; Clear speech ; Listening ; Hamlet's advice
- Structure. The givens ; The word ; Alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia ; Rhythm ; Pauses and irregularities of rhythm ; The line ; The thought and the structuring of thoughts ; The structure of scenes ; Antithesis ; Rhyme ; Prose ; Irony ; Puns ; Language games ; Repetition ; The story ; Location ; Stage directions, props, entrances and exits ; Soliloquy
- The imaginative. The imaginative exploration of the text ; Anchoring the text ; Focus and energy ; Summary
- The speeches. Richard III ; Julius Caesar ; Measure for measure ; King Lear ; As you like it ; Much ado about nothing ; The merchant of Venice ; Othello ; Henry V ; The winter's tale ; Macbeth ; A midsummer night's dream ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Coriolanus ; Cymbeline ; King John
- Checklists. Preparing the body, breath, voice and speech ; The givens ; The imaginative.