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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... honey breath, fighting for existence against the farmer who fires it every year, and envelops Dartmoor in a cloud of smoke from March to June. Why should he do this instead of employing the young shoots as fodder? I think that as ...
... honey breath, fighting for existence against the farmer who fires it every year, and envelops Dartmoor in a cloud of smoke from March to June. Why should he do this instead of employing the young shoots as fodder? I think that as ...
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... Honey , ' zif ' twere laughin ' like a crazy spook at him an ' his tussel to git along ag'in it an ' the drivin ' snow . Some- times it'd sweep down an ' ketch Honey's breath an ' sail off with it , an ' Honey'd gasp an ' clutch fer it ...
... Honey , ' zif ' twere laughin ' like a crazy spook at him an ' his tussel to git along ag'in it an ' the drivin ' snow . Some- times it'd sweep down an ' ketch Honey's breath an ' sail off with it , an ' Honey'd gasp an ' clutch fer it ...
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... honey by pointing at her “honey breath,” which is now accompanied by “a crimson river of warm blood.”48 The repetition of similar tropes, this time connected with parts of Lavinia's body instead of her complete self, has a double effect ...
... honey by pointing at her “honey breath,” which is now accompanied by “a crimson river of warm blood.”48 The repetition of similar tropes, this time connected with parts of Lavinia's body instead of her complete self, has a double effect ...
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... , like his ancestry ; " " Nature carved thee for her seal , " & c . + See Sonnets 5 , 6 , 18 , 54 , 56 , 65 , 68 , 73 , 97 , 98 , 102 , 104 . upon , as they are sufficiently obvious . One point 30 Summer's Honey Breath.
... , like his ancestry ; " " Nature carved thee for her seal , " & c . + See Sonnets 5 , 6 , 18 , 54 , 56 , 65 , 68 , 73 , 97 , 98 , 102 , 104 . upon , as they are sufficiently obvious . One point 30 Summer's Honey Breath.
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... breath their masked buds discloses : O , how shall summer's honey breath hold out With April's first - born flowers . . . L. S. And every fair from fa'r sometimes declines , M.P. The rose looks fair , but fairer we it deem L. And every ...
... breath their masked buds discloses : O , how shall summer's honey breath hold out With April's first - born flowers . . . L. S. And every fair from fa'r sometimes declines , M.P. The rose looks fair , but fairer we it deem L. And every ...
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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