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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... situation and an attempt to work on that situation . An oration like that needs that amount of come - back for Henry to work on and to help whoever's acting him to be real in the theatre . Do you see why I'm taking this particular ...
... situation and an attempt to work on that situation . An oration like that needs that amount of come - back for Henry to work on and to help whoever's acting him to be real in the theatre . Do you see why I'm taking this particular ...
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... situation I'm in . And how would you all react if you were in such a situation ? ' Yes , as ever , our word is ' share ' . So go for the mixture and share both the funny side of the situation and the horrors of it . Give us a mixture ...
... situation I'm in . And how would you all react if you were in such a situation ? ' Yes , as ever , our word is ' share ' . So go for the mixture and share both the funny side of the situation and the horrors of it . Give us a mixture ...
Page 103
... situations for which the only evidence is the sonnet itself . They are like little self- contained scenes , fourteen ... situation by himself . In other words he has a little soliloquy . Let me make it clear that we're not concerned here ...
... situations for which the only evidence is the sonnet itself . They are like little self- contained scenes , fourteen ... situation by himself . In other words he has a little soliloquy . Let me make it clear that we're not concerned here ...
Contents
Foreword by Trevor Nunn page | 1 |
Objective Things | 5 |
The Two TraditionsElizabethan and Modern Acting | 6 |
Copyright | |
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