Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the TextA passionate exploration of the process of comprehending and speaking the words of William Shakespeare. Detailing exercises and analyzing characters' speech and rhythms, Linklater provides the tools to increase understanding and make Shakespeare's words one's own. |
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... hear repeated again and again: “Stop thinking. Get beyond the words. It's not the words that count, it's the behavior. The truth of what you are doing is where the truth lies, not what you're saying. Play the subtext not the text. Play ...
... hear repeated again and again: “Stop thinking. Get beyond the words. It's not the words that count, it's the behavior. The truth of what you are doing is where the truth lies, not what you're saying. Play the subtext not the text. Play ...
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... hear more cerebrally than in the age of oral communication, but “whole-body” speaking and listening is still operative even though we may not be consciously tuned in to it. Actors who want to tune in to Shakespeare's text and ...
... hear more cerebrally than in the age of oral communication, but “whole-body” speaking and listening is still operative even though we may not be consciously tuned in to it. Actors who want to tune in to Shakespeare's text and ...
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... hear OO-UH making up W and. EE-UH making up Y. They are liquid, powerful and suggestive. If you have fully given yourself to this exploration—the exploration of you by the sounds, not the other way around–you will have experienced a ...
... hear OO-UH making up W and. EE-UH making up Y. They are liquid, powerful and suggestive. If you have fully given yourself to this exploration—the exploration of you by the sounds, not the other way around–you will have experienced a ...
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... Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confus'd; behold the threaden sails, Borne with th'invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge. O, do but think You stand ...
... Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confus'd; behold the threaden sails, Borne with th'invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge. O, do but think You stand ...
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Contents
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3 Words Into Phrases | 45 |
4 Organically Cosmically and Etymologically Speaking | 57 |
5 Figures of Speech | 79 |
6 The Iambic Pentameter | 121 |
7 Rhyme | 141 |
8 Lineendings | 153 |
9 Verse and Prose Alternation | 173 |
THE CONTEXTURE | 183 |
10 Todays Actor in Shakespeares World | 187 |
11 Shakespeares Voice in Todays World | 193 |
12 Which Voice? The Texts | 204 |
Stage Directions Double Meanings Bawdry Thees Thous and Yous | 99 |
Verse and Prose | 119 |
13 Whose Voice? The Man | 209 |
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Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text Kristin Linklater Limited preview - 1992 |
Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text Kristin Linklater No preview available - 2010 |
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