Speaking ShakespeareMethuen, 2002 - 355 sider This text journeys to the heart of speaking and acting Shakespeare. Starting with the givens of speaking verse through to the rehearsal of leading Shakespeare roles from Hamlet, King Lear, Richard III, Macbeth and others, this title unlocks some of the greatest challenges from a playwrite that any actor will encounter. With a mixture of anecdotes and clear instructions starting with the voice and moving on to major textual analysis, this text provides a guide to anyone who wants to start to understand how to act Shakespeare. |
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Patsy Rodenburg. Irony Ironic language conveys the opposite of its apparent literal meaning . Many speakers manage to imply an opposite meaning through tone . This is sarcasm rather than irony . Sarcasm - meaning , in the Greek , the ...
Patsy Rodenburg. Irony Ironic language conveys the opposite of its apparent literal meaning . Many speakers manage to imply an opposite meaning through tone . This is sarcasm rather than irony . Sarcasm - meaning , in the Greek , the ...
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... irony . Failure to do so will flatten the speech and reduce its power . Irony is reliant on context and character . As in antithesis , where opposites are explored by placing a word against a word , so we under- stand when a speech is ...
... irony . Failure to do so will flatten the speech and reduce its power . Irony is reliant on context and character . As in antithesis , where opposites are explored by placing a word against a word , so we under- stand when a speech is ...
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... Irony is useful when the playing field is not flat : with it you can outwit a more powerful person . So Henry V's public humiliation as he realises that the ' treasure ' the Dauphin of France has sent him is tennis balls means it's ...
... Irony is useful when the playing field is not flat : with it you can outwit a more powerful person . So Henry V's public humiliation as he realises that the ' treasure ' the Dauphin of France has sent him is tennis balls means it's ...
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Foundation Craft | 3 |
The Body | 15 |
The State of Readiness | 23 |
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actor alliteration Antony audience Autolycus beat begin Benedick Berowne blank verse body breath character character's Claudio connected death Demetrius Desdemona Edgar Edmund emotional energy exercise explore eyes Falstaff father feel fool forward givens Gloucester Goneril Hamlet hath hear heart Heightened Circumstances Helena Hermia human husband Iago iambic iambic pentameter imagination irony Isabella journey Juliet King King Lear Lady Macbeth language Lear Leontes listen look Lysander meaning Merchant of Venice mouth move murder muscles Oberon Olivia onomatopoeia Othello pain passion pause Phoebe physical play Posthumus prose Puck push realise rehearsal release reveal rhyming couplet rhythm Richard Romeo Rosalind scene Second Circle sense Shakespeare Shylock Silvius soliloquy sound speak speech stay stop structure syllables tension thee thou thought Titania tongue Tybalt understand Viola vocal voice vowels walk wife Winter's Tale word