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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... passions regularly and the twentieth-century voice goes pretty much unexercised in the language of extreme expression. The general public does not get together and indulge in full-throated singing three or four times a week; families do ...
... passions regularly and the twentieth-century voice goes pretty much unexercised in the language of extreme expression. The general public does not get together and indulge in full-throated singing three or four times a week; families do ...
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... passionate things than all the other voices. It may not speak familiar “truths" but it is truer to our larger, original selves than the limited, correct, proven, out-loud voice that has learnt to conform to the language of a judgmental ...
... passionate things than all the other voices. It may not speak familiar “truths" but it is truer to our larger, original selves than the limited, correct, proven, out-loud voice that has learnt to conform to the language of a judgmental ...
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... passionate desire for something rough and tactile in words is indivisible from the passion of his creative process. He says that the words must be the senses, must be the emotions because only then will they plumb the depths of the ...
... passionate desire for something rough and tactile in words is indivisible from the passion of his creative process. He says that the words must be the senses, must be the emotions because only then will they plumb the depths of the ...
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... passion,” the two being considered mutually incompatible, and "judgment” is presented as dependable where “feelings” are not. The approved compromise is tepid tolerance, “seeing both sides of the question,” “trying to be reasonable ...
... passion,” the two being considered mutually incompatible, and "judgment” is presented as dependable where “feelings” are not. The approved compromise is tepid tolerance, “seeing both sides of the question,” “trying to be reasonable ...
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Contents
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3 | |
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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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