Playing Shakespeare

Author: John Barton
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307773914
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
Playing 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.

Mastering Shakespeare

Author: Scott Kaiser
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1581159609
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
Who says only the British can act Shakespeare? In this unique guide, a veteran acting coach shatters that myth with a boldly American approach to the Bard. Written in the form of a play, this volume's "characters" include a master teacher and 16 students grappling with the challenges of acting Shakespeare. Using actual speeches from 32 of Shakespeare's plays, each of the book's six "scenes" offer proven solutions to such acting problems as delivering spoken subtext, using physical actions to orchestrate a speech, creating images within a speech, dividing a speech into measures, and much more.

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare

Author: Patrick Tucker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135862265
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn't a book that gently instructs. It's a passionate, yes-you-can designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. By explaining how Elizabethan actors had only their own lines and not entire playscripts, Patrick Tucker shows how much these plays work by ear. Secrets of Acting Shakespeare is a book for actors trained and amateur, as well as for anyone curious about how the Elizabethan theater worked.

The True Performing of It

Author: Andrew Muir
Publisher: Red Planet
ISBN: 9781912733958
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
Examines the similarities in the work of Bob Dylan and William Shakespeare.

An Actor's Guide to Performing Shakespeare

Author: Madd Harold
Publisher: Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC
ISBN: 9781580650465
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Madd Harold strips Shakespeare of his mystique and gives the professional actor, drama student, and theatre director access to unambiguous and easy-to-master techniques used by great actors throughout the ages.

Will Power

Author: John Basil
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557836663
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
Provides a guide for actors which outlines a three-week process for performing Shakespeare's plays.

Performing Shakespeare

Author: Oliver Ford Davies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
An authoritative, hands-on guide through the practical challenges involved in performing Shakespeare.

Performing Shakespeare: A Way to Learn

Author: Robert Sugarman
Publisher: Mountainside Press
ISBN: 0983255814
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Successful second grade, fifth grade and high school programs are analyzed to help teachers, directors and leaders of social programs enrich their work by performing Shakespeare with young people.

Performing Shakespeare's Women

Author: Paige Martin Reynolds
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350002615
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 207

Book Description
Shakespeare's women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in Shakespeare's works often find themselves 'playing dead.' But what does it mean to 'play dead', particularly for women actors, whose bodies become scrutinized and anatomized by audiences and fellow actors who 'grossly gape on'? In what ways does playing Shakespeare's women when they are dead emblematize the difficulties of playing them while they are still alive? Ultimately, what is at stake for the female actor who embodies Shakespeare's women today, dead or alive? Situated at the intersection of the creative and the critical, Performing Shakespeare's Women: Playing Dead engages performance history, current scholarship and the practical problems facing the female actor of Shakespeare's plays when it comes to 'playing dead' on the contemporary stage and in a post-feminist world. This book explores the consequences of corpsing Shakespeare's women, considering important ethical questions that matter to practitioners, students and critics of Shakespeare today.

Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire

Author: Richard Foulkes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521034425
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
Explores the political and social uses of Shakespeare through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century.