Playing ShakespeareTogether with Royal Shakespeare Company actors including Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet, director John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. Barton begins by explicating Shakespeare's verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare's most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. |
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... Death ' , and then moved right away from me . I stood there and thought about it very carefully before saying ... Death ' , i.e. at the end of the first short verse line instead of running the whole thing together . Can we try that and ...
... Death ' , and then moved right away from me . I stood there and thought about it very carefully before saying ... Death ' , i.e. at the end of the first short verse line instead of running the whole thing together . Can we try that and ...
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... death of kings- How some have been deposed , some slain in war , Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed , Some poisoned by their wives , some sleeping killed , All murdered . For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal ...
... death of kings- How some have been deposed , some slain in war , Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed , Some poisoned by their wives , some sleeping killed , All murdered . For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal ...
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... Death ! Death ! O amiable , lovely death ! Thou odoriferous stench ! Sound rottenness ! . . . Come , grin on me , and I will think thou smilest And buss thee as thy wife . Misery's love , O , come to me ! KING PHILIP : O fair affliction ...
... Death ! Death ! O amiable , lovely death ! Thou odoriferous stench ! Sound rottenness ! . . . Come , grin on me , and I will think thou smilest And buss thee as thy wife . Misery's love , O , come to me ! KING PHILIP : O fair affliction ...
Contents
Foreword by Trevor Nunn page | 1 |
Objective Things | 5 |
The Two TraditionsElizabethan and Modern Acting | 6 |
Copyright | |
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