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9780312294205

Speaking Shakespeare

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312294205

  • ISBN10:

    0312294204

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2002-08-17
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

"You can't act Shakespeare until you can speak him." These words inform every page ofSpeaking Shakespeare. Patsy Rodenburg tackles one of the most difficult jobs an actor can take on: speaking Shakespeare on the stage both as his words were meant to be spoken as well as in an understandable and dramatic way that projects the reality of the character. Patsy calls this book "a simple manual to start the journey into the heart of Shakespeare." She begins with the "givens" of speaking verse. She then moves on to the rehearsal of leading Shakespeare roles fromHamlet, King Lear, Richard III, Macbethand others. LikeThe Actor Speaks, this will be a book every working actor will need to have. Speaking Shakespeare is a passionate book about how one properly plays the characters of the most well-known playwright in the English language and that passion is encompassed in another rule she passes on to her students and readers.

Author Biography

Patsy Rodenburg is the Director of Voice at London’s National Theater and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is recognized as one of the world’s leading voice and acting coaches. She is the author of The Actor Speaks among other titles.

Table of Contents

Preparation
The Body
Breath
Support
Freeing the Voice
Placing the Free Voice
Further Preparation: Taking it Further
Range, Resonance and Clear Speech
Speech
Listening
Verse Speaking
The Word
The Iambic
The Line
Line Ending
The Thought and the Structuring of Thoughts
Walking the Journey of a Thought
Blank Verse
Classical Rhetoric
Prose
Irony
Puns--Word Games
Repetition
The Story
Location, Setting, Place
Stage Directions, Props, Entrances and Exits
Soliloquy
The Imaginative Exploration of the Text
Owning the Text from the Characters Experience
The Speeches
The Givens

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