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Author
Publisher
Allworth Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
xvii, 189 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Clues to Acting Shakespeare has become a popular guide for actors, directors, teachers and Shakespeare enthusiasts, selling over 15,000 copies of previous editions. This third edition retains the second edition's unique solutions to challenges that face directors and actors at advanced levels and is expanded to include an entirely new section for amateur and community theatre groups. In this new edition, readers will be delighted to find:
New section...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xii, 355 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Speaking Shakespeare, Patsy Rodenburg tackles one of the most difficult acting jobs: speaking Shakespeare's words both as they were meant to be spoken and in an understandable and dramatic way. Rodenburg calls this "a simple manual to start the journey into the heart of Shakespeare," and that is what she gives us. With the same insight she displayed in The Actor Speaks, Rodenburg tackles the playing of all Shakespeare's characters. She uses dramatic...
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Language
English
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Description
Strained to the limits of his hard-won sobriety when his daughter runs away to join the theater, Beaumont pursues her to a Shakespeare Festival where two stars are murdered. Beau uncovers a real-life revenge play whose twisted director will stop at nothing to make sure the last body falls on cue.
Author
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
What do the Dead Sea Scrolls and frog overlays have to do with performing Shakespeare? They're both part of Louis Fantasia's approach in Instant Shakespeare. Mr. Fantasia, the first American to direct at the Shakespeare Globe Centre and a distinguished member of the international theatre community, has developed a pragmatic and uniquely American performance technique. Expanded and refined in performances and workshops throughout the world, Instant...
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 214 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Preeminent voice teacher, actor and director Kristin Linklater goes beyond the techniques in her classic text, Freeing the natural voice, to a passionate exploration of the words of William Shakespeare. Using copious examples from the canon, including chapters on Shakespeare's relevance in today's world, Linklater gives us the tools to increase understanding and to make Shakespeare's words our own.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From performing in sweltering deserts, capital and remote cities, heaving marketplaces and on Pacific islands, and despite food poisoning in Mexico, the threat of ambush in Somaliland, an Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and political upheaval in Ukraine, the Globe's players tirelessly pushed on. They carried their own props, instruments, and costumes throughout the journey, and could construct an entire set in less than two hours. Dromgoole introduces...
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
lviii, 1028 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A detailed guide to approaching Shakespearean text, Speak the speech! contains everything an actor needs to select and prepare a Shakespeare monologue for classwork, auditions, or performance. Included herein are over 150 monologues. Each one is placed in context with a brief introduction, is carefully punctuated in the manner that best illustrates its meaning, and is painstakingly and thoroughly annotated. Each is also accompanied by commentary that...
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English
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“A feverishly paced action adventure” (The New York Times) about a long-lost Shakespeare work and a killer who reenacts the Bard’s most bloody murders
On the eve of the Globe’s production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley’s eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. Before she...
“A feverishly paced action adventure” (The New York Times) about a long-lost Shakespeare work and a killer who reenacts the Bard’s most bloody murders
On the eve of the Globe’s production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley’s eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. Before she...
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Language
English
Description
"Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before by pre-ordering internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent - a witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of our beloved Shakespeare. Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig... Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green... Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin...
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