Freeing Shakespeare's Voice The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text

Name: Freeing Shakespeare's Voice The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text
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ISBN: 9781559360319

ISBN-10: 1559360313

ISBN-13: 9781559360319

Edition: 2007 (Reprint)

Authors: Kristin Linklater

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Beginning with exercises designed to break long-held habits and allow an emotional rather than intellectual relationship to Elizabethan language, Kristin Linklater analyses Shakespeare's strategies for creating character, story and meaning through figures of speech, iambic pentameter, rhyme and the alternation of verse and prose.

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.30" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Prologue


Introduction


The Content: Language



Vowels and Consonants



Words and Images



Words into Phrases



Organically, Cosmically and Etymologically Speaking



Figures of Speech


Interlude: Stage Directions; Double Meanings; Bawdry; Thee's, Thou's and You's


The Form: Verse and Prose



Iambic Pentameter



Rhyme



Line-Endings



Verse and Prose Alternation


The Contexture



Today's Actor in Shakespeare's World



Shakespeare's Voice in Today's World



Which Voice? The Texts



Whose Voice? The Man