Playing Shakespeare: An Actor's GuidePlaying Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director 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. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students. |
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... naturalism.”[1] Anyone who takes up the topic of naturalism today should heed the warning of Barry Stroud: The idea of “nature,” or “natural” objects or relations, or modes of investigations that are “naturalistic,” has been applied ...
... naturalism.”[1] Anyone who takes up the topic of naturalism today should heed the warning of Barry Stroud: The idea of “nature,” or “natural” objects or relations, or modes of investigations that are “naturalistic,” has been applied ...
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... naturalistic conception of cultural evolution must do justice to both the intersubjective constitution of the mind and the normative character of its rule-guided operations. On the other hand, the spread of naturalistic worldviews is ...
... naturalistic conception of cultural evolution must do justice to both the intersubjective constitution of the mind and the normative character of its rule-guided operations. On the other hand, the spread of naturalistic worldviews is ...
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Glen Johnson. The terms naturalism and naturalistic philosophy have already been used , and because of their elusive nature , some word of explanation is necessary . It has been said that naturalism is a temper rather than a system of ...
Glen Johnson. The terms naturalism and naturalistic philosophy have already been used , and because of their elusive nature , some word of explanation is necessary . It has been said that naturalism is a temper rather than a system of ...
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Rudolf Otto William Douglas Morrison. CHAPTER II NATURALISM NATURALISM is not of to - day or of yesterday , but is very ancient , ―as old , indeed , as philosophy , as old as ... NATURALISM What is distinctive in the Naturalistic Outlook.
Rudolf Otto William Douglas Morrison. CHAPTER II NATURALISM NATURALISM is not of to - day or of yesterday , but is very ancient , ―as old , indeed , as philosophy , as old as ... NATURALISM What is distinctive in the Naturalistic Outlook.
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... naturalistic plays ( as well as in Ibsen ) . In addition , almost all naturalistic dramatists in fact use symbolic elements as key devices to communicate wider meanings . Given its poetic basis , implying an idealized and interior ...
... naturalistic plays ( as well as in Ibsen ) . In addition , almost all naturalistic dramatists in fact use symbolic elements as key devices to communicate wider meanings . Given its poetic basis , implying an idealized and interior ...
Contents
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Language and CharacterMaking the Words Ones Own | 56 |
Using the ProseWhy Does Shakespeare Use Prose? | 83 |
S Set Speeches and Soliloquies Taking the Audience with You | 106 |
Using the SonnetsGoing Over Some Old Ground | 128 |
Subjective Things | 147 |
Irony and AmbiguityText That Isnt What It Seems | 149 |
Passion and CoolnessA Question of Balance | 167 |
Rehearsing the TextOrsino and Viola | 188 |
Exploring a CharacterPlaying Shylock | 211 |
Contemporary ShakespeareA Discussion | 227 |
Poetry and Hidden PoetryThree Kinds of Failure | 243 |
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actor actually Alan Howard ambiguity antitheses Antonio audience Barbara Leigh-Hunt believe Ben Kingsley blank verse Brutus Caesar character COSTARD course Cressida David Suchet de-dum death Desdemona director Donald Sinden dost doth Elizabethan EMILIA emotional example FALSTAFF feel FESTE give Hamlet happens hath heightened language Henry honour Ian McKellen intention irony Jane Lapotaire Judi Dench King Kingsley Lisa Harrow listen look mean Merchant of Venice Michael Pennington Mike Gwilym naturalistic Norman Rodway once ORSINO Othello passage passion Patrick Stewart pause Peggy Ashcroft perhaps Playing Shakespeare poetic poetry PORTIA prose rehearsal rhythm Richard Pasco Roger Rees scene sense Shake Shakespeare's text Sheila Hancock Shylock soliloquy sonnet sooth I know sounds speak speare speech strong stresses talking tell theater thee there's thing thou thought Tony Church Troilus verse line verse-line VIOLA words