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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 41
Page 18
... ). 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 wonder. Perhaps 18 THE CONTENT: LANGUAGE.
... ). 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 wonder. Perhaps 18 THE CONTENT: LANGUAGE.
Page 24
... eyes. Feel, with your fingers, the bone-structure circling the eye-sockets. Picture the portholes of the eyes. Be aware of the fragility of your eyes and the strong protection that surrounds the “windows to the soul." An almost ...
... eyes. Feel, with your fingers, the bone-structure circling the eye-sockets. Picture the portholes of the eyes. Be aware of the fragility of your eyes and the strong protection that surrounds the “windows to the soul." An almost ...
Page 25
... eyes PE-EY DEh cheekbones DEh BA mid-cheeks BA HU-UH-UH mouth HU-UH-UH FUh lips FUh MA-AA heart MA-AA GOh chest center GOh SHAW-AW solar plexus SHAW-AW WO-Oe belly WO-Oe ZZOO-OO legs & pelvis ZZOO-OO Start here and go up end here To ...
... eyes PE-EY DEh cheekbones DEh BA mid-cheeks BA HU-UH-UH mouth HU-UH-UH FUh lips FUh MA-AA heart MA-AA GOh chest center GOh SHAW-AW solar plexus SHAW-AW WO-Oe belly WO-Oe ZZOO-OO legs & pelvis ZZOO-OO Start here and go up end here To ...
Page 26
... eyes cheekbones mid-cheeks mouth lips heart chest center solar plexus belly legs and pelvis The first four lines of the Prologue are: O, for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention; A kingdom for a stage ...
... eyes cheekbones mid-cheeks mouth lips heart chest center solar plexus belly legs and pelvis The first four lines of the Prologue are: O, for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention; A kingdom for a stage ...
Page 27
... eyes princes forehead to legs/pelvis act mid-cheeks And mid-cheeks monarchs chest heart to legs/pelvis behold forehead belly the mouth swelling cheekbones forehead scene crown of head DO THIS TO STRETCH YOUR VOICE AND FREE YOUR ENERGY ...
... eyes princes forehead to legs/pelvis act mid-cheeks And mid-cheeks monarchs chest heart to legs/pelvis behold forehead belly the mouth swelling cheekbones forehead scene crown of head DO THIS TO STRETCH YOUR VOICE AND FREE YOUR ENERGY ...
Contents
1 | |
3 | |
9 | |
11 | |
30 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
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 |
Common terms and phrases
action actor Anglo-Saxon Anne antithesis beauty Benedick body character chest classical consonants cultural de-dum drama Dromio earth Elizabethan emotional energy English English language exercise experience express eyes feel Folio Hamlet hand hear heart heaven hell honey breath human iambic pentameter imagery images inner King King Lear kiss language Leontes line-endings lips listening little-big words lives look lord Macbeth meaning Messenger mightst thou mouth move murder natural Neil Freeman Olivia onomatopoeia Oxford passion performance Petruchio picture poetry prose rage rhyming couplets rhythm Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet Rosalind s/he Scene sense Shakespeare's text solar plexus Sonnet 65 soul sound speaker speaking Shakespeare speech spoken sprung rhythm stage directions story syllables tell thee thought thought/feeling Time's best tion today's actor tongue truth twentieth-century verse vibrations Viola voice vowels vowels and consonants William Shakespeare Winter's Tale