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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... scene-painting which illustrates the importance of fulfilling the role played by vowels and consonants in the realization of his artistry. It is the fourth Chorus in Henry V at the beginning of Act IV: Now entertain conjecture of a time ...
... scene-painting which illustrates the importance of fulfilling the role played by vowels and consonants in the realization of his artistry. It is the fourth Chorus in Henry V at the beginning of Act IV: Now entertain conjecture of a time ...
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... for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention; A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! The words travel something like this: O belly for a 26 THE CONTENT: LANGUAGE.
... for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention; A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! The words travel something like this: O belly for a 26 THE CONTENT: LANGUAGE.
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... scene crown of head DO THIS TO STRETCH YOUR VOICE AND FREE YOUR ENERGY DO NOT GET STUCKIN PLACING THE PITCHES EXACTLY THINK WHAT YOU ARE SAYING Painstakingly slow and pedantic when written out like this and in danger of falling into a ...
... scene crown of head DO THIS TO STRETCH YOUR VOICE AND FREE YOUR ENERGY DO NOT GET STUCKIN PLACING THE PITCHES EXACTLY THINK WHAT YOU ARE SAYING Painstakingly slow and pedantic when written out like this and in danger of falling into a ...
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... scene” suddenly jumps the excitement back up into the head. The next few lines center more in the middle of the body with the strong image of Harry in “the port of Mars.” And so on. The one other phrase that I will pull out of this ...
... scene” suddenly jumps the excitement back up into the head. The next few lines center more in the middle of the body with the strong image of Harry in “the port of Mars.” And so on. The one other phrase that I will pull out of this ...
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... Scene iii She is not “talking about" her emotional state, she is revealing it, eloquently. Her body can express it and her brain form it into words. Neither instrument inhibits the other. These passages deal with extremity and it is ...
... Scene iii She is not “talking about" her emotional state, she is revealing it, eloquently. Her body can express it and her brain form it into words. Neither instrument inhibits the other. These passages deal with extremity and it is ...
Contents
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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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