Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the TextA passionate exploration of the process of comprehending and speaking the words of William Shakespeare. Detailing exercises and analyzing characters' speech and rhythms, Linklater provides the tools to increase understanding and make Shakespeare's words one's own. |
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... Shakespeare Glossary (Oxford), Eric Partridge's Shakespeare's Bawdy (Routledge), and The Oxford English Dictionary. T: book draws upon my life—in the classroom as teacher and I myself owe a great deal to Walter Ong's The I Prologue.
... Shakespeare Glossary (Oxford), Eric Partridge's Shakespeare's Bawdy (Routledge), and The Oxford English Dictionary. T: book draws upon my life—in the classroom as teacher and I myself owe a great deal to Walter Ong's The I Prologue.
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... English Language (Stanford University Press), many of Frances A. Yates's books, but in particular Theatre of the World (Routledge & K. Paul) and Paul Fussell's inspiring Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (Random House). I am most recently ...
... English Language (Stanford University Press), many of Frances A. Yates's books, but in particular Theatre of the World (Routledge & K. Paul) and Paul Fussell's inspiring Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (Random House). I am most recently ...
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... English language have been badly treated over the last hundred years. I don't mean that “good speech has deteriorated,” I mean that artificial standards of “correct speech” have associated any mention of vowels and consonants with ...
... English language have been badly treated over the last hundred years. I don't mean that “good speech has deteriorated,” I mean that artificial standards of “correct speech” have associated any mention of vowels and consonants with ...
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... English and American-English language. You can quickly become alert to the body-pitch places for diphthongs such as “high” or “how” or “hue” when you are attuned to the fundamentals. If you now return to the Chorus from Henry V at the ...
... English and American-English language. You can quickly become alert to the body-pitch places for diphthongs such as “high” or “how” or “hue” when you are attuned to the fundamentals. If you now return to the Chorus from Henry V at the ...
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Contents
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3 | |
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3 Words Into Phrases | 45 |
4 Organically Cosmically and Etymologically Speaking | 57 |
5 Figures of Speech | 79 |
6 The Iambic Pentameter | 121 |
7 Rhyme | 141 |
8 Lineendings | 153 |
9 Verse and Prose Alternation | 173 |
THE CONTEXTURE | 183 |
10 Todays Actor in Shakespeares World | 187 |
11 Shakespeares Voice in Todays World | 193 |
12 Which Voice? The Texts | 204 |
Stage Directions Double Meanings Bawdry Thees Thous and Yous | 99 |
Verse and Prose | 119 |
13 Whose Voice? The Man | 209 |
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Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text Kristin Linklater Limited preview - 1992 |
Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text Kristin Linklater No preview available - 2010 |
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