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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... moving at breakneck speed, in evolutionary terms, further and further away from tens of thousands of years of oral ... moved from the body. into. the. head. In. general,. the. experience. of. "who. I. am". now. exists. in. the head, behind ...
... moving at breakneck speed, in evolutionary terms, further and further away from tens of thousands of years of oral ... moved from the body. into. the. head. In. general,. the. experience. of. "who. I. am". now. exists. in. the head, behind ...
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... moved from an oral to a written culture, from the body to the printed page. Within the last two hundred years the growing influence of print has increasingly cut language off from the sensorium. One might say that language, thus denied ...
... moved from an oral to a written culture, from the body to the printed page. Within the last two hundred years the growing influence of print has increasingly cut language off from the sensorium. One might say that language, thus denied ...
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... move you, physically, so prepare yourself for this both in mind and body. You can work lying down, standing or ... moving into you and out of you 16 THE CONTENT: LANGUAGE.
... move you, physically, so prepare yourself for this both in mind and body. You can work lying down, standing or ... moving into you and out of you 16 THE CONTENT: LANGUAGE.
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... move around through the spaces of your body. See whether it prefers to occupy any particular area of your body more than another. Let the OOOOO find the vibrations of your voice. Let the OOOOO find the emotion that suits it, the mood it ...
... move around through the spaces of your body. See whether it prefers to occupy any particular area of your body more than another. Let the OOOOO find the vibrations of your voice. Let the OOOOO find the emotion that suits it, the mood it ...
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... MOVES THE BODY. Now let three small sounds play with you: I (as in HIT), E (as in PET) and A (as in HAT). These sounds are intrinsically short. Look for the differences in their nature. Do they express different energies? Find their ...
... MOVES THE BODY. Now let three small sounds play with you: I (as in HIT), E (as in PET) and A (as in HAT). These sounds are intrinsically short. Look for the differences in their nature. Do they express different energies? Find their ...
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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