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 95
... Things won are done - joy's soul lies in the doing . That she beloved knows naught that knows not this : Men prize the thing ungained more than it is . That she was never yet that ever knew Love got so sweet as when desire did sue ...
... Things won are done - joy's soul lies in the doing . That she beloved knows naught that knows not this : Men prize the thing ungained more than it is . That she was never yet that ever knew Love got so sweet as when desire did sue ...
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... thing which Richard thinks he understands , but you are really voicing a criticism of him which he doesn't understand . Norman Rodway : Well , then I should have said it as a surface thing . Both as a surface thing and an ironic thing ...
... thing which Richard thinks he understands , but you are really voicing a criticism of him which he doesn't understand . Norman Rodway : Well , then I should have said it as a surface thing . Both as a surface thing and an ironic thing ...
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... thing to go for in playing Shakespeare ? Peggy Ashcroft : I think it's too simple to say : the truth . What do we ... thing , it's not the thing the actor can start with . No ... I don't think that's quite true . Peggy has just spoken of ...
... thing to go for in playing Shakespeare ? Peggy Ashcroft : I think it's too simple to say : the truth . What do we ... thing , it's not the thing the actor can start with . No ... I don't think that's quite true . Peggy has just spoken of ...
Contents
Foreword by Trevor Nunn page | 1 |
Objective Things | 5 |
The Two TraditionsElizabethan and Modern Acting | 6 |
Copyright | |
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