An Audition Handbook of Great Speeches |
Contents
The Greeks | 3 |
The Renaissance | 40 |
Supplementary suggestions from Shakespeare | 130 |
Selections from Corneille and Molière new translations | 137 |
Englands Restoration Period | 152 |
Selections from the Restoration | 155 |
Vanbrugh 101 | 157 |
Wycherly 102 | 160 |
Europes 19th Century Drama | 167 |
Selections from 19th Century Plays new translations | 168 |
Ibsen 111116 | 171 |
118 | 181 |
120 | 184 |
127 | 186 |
Synge 128 | 195 |
Wilde 129 | 196 |
Common terms and phrases
action Aegisthus Aeschylus Agamemnon audience beauty blood breath Brutus Caesar character cherry orchard Clytemnestra comedy comes Commedia dell'Arte conscience court Creon crown curse Cyrano daughter dead dear death deed doth dramatic literature dream earth Edward eyes Farewell father Faustus fear feel follow give Greeks Hamlet hand hate hath head hear heart heaven honor Horner husband Iago Juliet kill King Henry kiss Lady laugh live look lord Macbeth Medea MERCHANT OF VENICE mind Molière mother murder Nacky Neo-Classicism never night numbers Oedipus Ophelia Othello Paris passion pause Peer play player playwright Prometheus Queen Restoration comedy revenge Richard Richard III Romeo Scene Shakespeare Shylock sleep smile society Sophocles soul speak speech stage stand sweet sword Tartuffe tell theatre thee thou art thought throne truth Tudor turn Tybalt Uncle Vanya wife woman words young Zeus