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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... energy and new ideas, and this book is dedicated to their talent and creativity: Normi Noel, Natsuko Ohama, Zoe Alexander, Virginia Ness, Michael Morgan, Christine Adaire, Peter Wittrock, Louis Colaianni, Judith Jablonka, Ariel Bock ...
... energy and new ideas, and this book is dedicated to their talent and creativity: Normi Noel, Natsuko Ohama, Zoe Alexander, Virginia Ness, Michael Morgan, Christine Adaire, Peter Wittrock, Louis Colaianni, Judith Jablonka, Ariel Bock ...
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... energy, and sitting will be pleasant. PREPARATION Feed in a deep sigh of relief that opens you all the way down to your pelvis and then let the feeling of relief fall out of you without restraint, on a free breath, without sound. Feed ...
... energy, and sitting will be pleasant. PREPARATION Feed in a deep sigh of relief that opens you all the way down to your pelvis and then let the feeling of relief fall out of you without restraint, on a free breath, without sound. Feed ...
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... energy of your breath and thought down through your legs and feet, out through your arms and hands, up through your head. EXERCISE Think the sound OOOOO (as in MOON) and give it the autonomy to move around through the spaces of your ...
... energy of your breath and thought down through your legs and feet, out through your arms and hands, up through your head. EXERCISE Think the sound OOOOO (as in MOON) and give it the autonomy to move around through the spaces of your ...
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... energy explore the sound EY (as in FATE). It is long and light and arouses interesting responses when allowed to fly out as though through the eyes. Up there it is a very vulnerable sound, even naive. It may express surprise or panic or ...
... energy explore the sound EY (as in FATE). It is long and light and arouses interesting responses when allowed to fly out as though through the eyes. Up there it is a very vulnerable sound, even naive. It may express surprise or panic or ...
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... energy increase and affect other parts of your body until the B sound makes you jump. D. Let the character of this sound affect you. Is it aggressive, funny, surprising, proud? Your lips may have to acquire extra muscle power to deal ...
... energy increase and affect other parts of your body until the B sound makes you jump. D. Let the character of this sound affect you. Is it aggressive, funny, surprising, proud? Your lips may have to acquire extra muscle power to deal ...
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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