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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... solar plexus is knit into the fiber of the diaphragm and is the primary emotional receiving and transmitting nerve center. Many people breathe high up in their chests and in these cases there would be no experience of vowels as ...
... solar plexus is knit into the fiber of the diaphragm and is the primary emotional receiving and transmitting nerve center. Many people breathe high up in their chests and in these cases there would be no experience of vowels as ...
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... solar plexus as a warm, internal sun whose rays take the 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 ...
... solar plexus as a warm, internal sun whose rays take the 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 ...
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... solar plexus, right at the bottom of the rib cage. It may have a somewhat anguished content. Lengthen it and feel what it wants to say. See if the color orange suits it. Above AW but lacking the freedom of AAAAA is a short, strong sound ...
... solar plexus, right at the bottom of the rib cage. It may have a somewhat anguished content. Lengthen it and feel what it wants to say. See if the color orange suits it. Above AW but lacking the freedom of AAAAA is a short, strong sound ...
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... solar plexus, making them more immediately emotional. The characters of consonants are multifarious. For the purposes of consciousness-raising and the heightened enjoyment of the language of poetry, Vowels and Consonants 19.
... solar plexus, making them more immediately emotional. The characters of consonants are multifarious. For the purposes of consciousness-raising and the heightened enjoyment of the language of poetry, Vowels and Consonants 19.
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... solar plexus — body – mouth. This constitutes a neuro-physiological reconditioning, daunting perhaps, were it not also pleasurable. It is a restoration of natural functions and should be performed in a spirit of play. For the process to ...
... solar plexus — body – mouth. This constitutes a neuro-physiological reconditioning, daunting perhaps, were it not also pleasurable. It is a restoration of natural functions and should be performed in a spirit of play. For the process to ...
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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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