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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Page 156
... heart ' , you need time before you say , ' For , boy , however we do praise ourselves / Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm . ' You make an important admission about yourself here and you tell the truth about your own self ...
... heart ' , you need time before you say , ' For , boy , however we do praise ourselves / Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm . ' You make an important admission about yourself here and you tell the truth about your own self ...
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... heart As you have for Olivia . You cannot love her . You tell her so . Must she not then be answered ? ORSINO : There is no woman's sides ( Pause . ) Can bide the beating of so strong a passion As love doth give my heart ; ... Make no ...
... heart As you have for Olivia . You cannot love her . You tell her so . Must she not then be answered ? ORSINO : There is no woman's sides ( Pause . ) Can bide the beating of so strong a passion As love doth give my heart ; ... Make no ...
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... heart's in the right place and I forgive you time and time again . Every so often it works spectacularly well . Maybe , but I am still nervous . An even more important ingredient of design today is the way we take great care to create ...
... heart's in the right place and I forgive you time and time again . Every so often it works spectacularly well . Maybe , but I am still nervous . An even more important ingredient of design today is the way we take great care to create ...
Contents
Foreword by Trevor Nunn page | 1 |
Objective Things | 5 |
The Two TraditionsElizabethan and Modern Acting | 6 |
Copyright | |
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