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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... exercises that I have developed for talking Shakespeare's text I owe to my students, to what they could not achieve and to what they could. My attempt as a teacher has been to create exercises that would arouse organically the desire ...
... exercises that I have developed for talking Shakespeare's text I owe to my students, to what they could not achieve and to what they could. My attempt as a teacher has been to create exercises that would arouse organically the desire ...
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... exercises will enable you to feel and to process for yourself the sounds, words, emotions, language forms and verse structure that constitute a Shakespearean text. I would urge the actor who knows that his or her voice is not yet ready ...
... exercises will enable you to feel and to process for yourself the sounds, words, emotions, language forms and verse structure that constitute a Shakespearean text. I would urge the actor who knows that his or her voice is not yet ready ...
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... exercise will allow you to experience the physical, sensory, sensual, emotional content of vowels and consonants, and it could change for ever your relationship with them. The aim of the exercise is to find ways to let the sound affect ...
... exercise will allow you to experience the physical, sensory, sensual, emotional content of vowels and consonants, and it could change for ever your relationship with them. The aim of the exercise is to find ways to let the sound affect ...
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... EXERCISE Think the sound OOOOO (as in MOON) and give it the autonomy to move around through the spaces of your body. See whether it prefers to occupy any particular area of your body more than another. Let the OOOOO find the vibrations ...
... EXERCISE Think the sound OOOOO (as in MOON) and give it the autonomy to move around through the spaces of your body. See whether it prefers to occupy any particular area of your body more than another. Let the OOOOO find the vibrations ...
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... exercise is best used for awareness and for generally connecting the voice with sensory, sensual, emotional and imaginative processes. The resultant psycho-physical conditioning serves the refashioning of language use. The enriched ...
... exercise is best used for awareness and for generally connecting the voice with sensory, sensual, emotional and imaginative processes. The resultant psycho-physical conditioning serves the refashioning of language use. The enriched ...
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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