An Actor's Edition of Shakespeare RevisitedAn Actor’s Edition of Shakespeare Revisited is a book for actors, directors, professors of theatre and the general public. Each of the plays has been edited for more understandability and length. The intent of the book was to make the works more accessible without making the language modern. When audiences see a Shakespeare play, they have only one time to grasp the words as they are spoken. Audience members do not have time to look at lengthy explanations or notes about words or expressions. Therefore, this edition of these five plays, presents the plays so that audience members as well as actors can follow the plays with little difficulty. Some words have been changed to accomplish this. In certain speeches, subjects or verbs were supplied for understandability. Because Shakespeare used many pronouns, these plays make use of more nouns so that the meaning of who or what is being spoken about becomes more clear.
The book also has some useful tools for the director and actors. A chart has been provided for each play that lists each character by act and scene. This can be very useful when there is a need to double cast actors. In addition, a “combination roles” page has also been added which gives suggestions for doubling parts for a smaller company. To help at rehearsals, page numbers for the beginning of each act and scene is provided on a single page for each play. Finally, each play has been broken into “beats” for the actor and the director. It is the hope of the author of this book that more people will find excitement in reading, performing, staging, or viewing Shakespeare because of the edited versions for understandability. Enjoy the plays---either reading or performing. |
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... hast thou been , sister ? Killing swine . Sister , where thou ? A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap And munched ... art kind . And I another wind . I myself have all the other winds , And I have the safe harbours from which the ...
... Thou art so fast in Achievements that awards are slow To overtake thee . Would thou hadst less deserved , That both my thanks and my payment might have Exceeded what you deserve . Only I have left to say , More is thy due than more than ...
... ignorant of what greatness is promised thee . Lay it to thy heart and farewell . " Thane of Glamis thou art , and now Thane of Cawdor . Thou shalt be MESSENGER : LADY MACBETH : MESSENGER : 21 An Actor's Edition of Shakespeare Revisited.
... Thou wouldst be great And art not without ambition , but thou lacks The ruthlessness that should attend it . What thou wouldst greatly like to have , Thou wouldst like to have in a virtuous way . Great Glamis , thou desire'st what calls ...
... thy love . Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valor As thou art in desire ? Wouldst thou have that , The crown , yet live as a coward , Saying , " I dare not ” yet " I'd like to . ” Prithee , peace . I dare do all that ...