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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... go against it . I also think the problem varies from play to play and sometimes from scene to scene and from speech to speech . I find that I need to stress what goes on in the verse much more in some plays than others . Sometimes in ...
... go against it . I also think the problem varies from play to play and sometimes from scene to scene and from speech to speech . I find that I need to stress what goes on in the verse much more in some plays than others . Sometimes in ...
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... go into bits of illogic . Yes , but I'm sure that the drastic change here is quite deliberate on Shakespeare's part . Because a normally cool man goes berserk , the storm becomes more real . It often pays off with Shakespeare to go for ...
... go into bits of illogic . Yes , but I'm sure that the drastic change here is quite deliberate on Shakespeare's part . Because a normally cool man goes berserk , the storm becomes more real . It often pays off with Shakespeare to go for ...
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... go for in playing Shakespeare ? Peggy Ashcroft : I think it's too simple to say : the truth . What do we mean by ... goes on in the text and ask yourselves / if you can use it . You must not reject it / until you've smelt it out and ...
... go for in playing Shakespeare ? Peggy Ashcroft : I think it's too simple to say : the truth . What do we mean by ... goes on in the text and ask yourselves / if you can use it . You must not reject it / until you've smelt it out and ...
Contents
Foreword by Trevor Nunn page | 1 |
Objective Things | 5 |
The Two TraditionsElizabethan and Modern Acting | 6 |
Copyright | |
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