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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... Thought was experienced in the body. Emotions inhabited the organs of the body. Filled with thought and feeling, the sound waves of the voice flowed out through the body and were received sensorially by other bodies which directly ...
... Thought was experienced in the body. Emotions inhabited the organs of the body. Filled with thought and feeling, the sound waves of the voice flowed out through the body and were received sensorially by other bodies which directly ...
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... thought down through your legs and feet, out through your arms and hands, up ... feels most at home in your body. Let the EEEEE find your voice. Let the ... feeling is going on in you through that wide, uninhibited channel. Open your ...
... thought down through your legs and feet, out through your arms and hands, up ... feels most at home in your body. Let the EEEEE find your voice. Let the ... feeling is going on in you through that wide, uninhibited channel. Open your ...
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... THOUGHT/FEELING IMPULSE INSPIRES THE BREATH-BREATH CREATES SOUND-SOUND MOVES THE BODY. Now let three small sounds ... feelings are aroused and expressed with each of these: perhaps surprise, contempt, aggression, playfulness, delight ...
... THOUGHT/FEELING IMPULSE INSPIRES THE BREATH-BREATH CREATES SOUND-SOUND MOVES THE BODY. Now let three small sounds ... feelings are aroused and expressed with each of these: perhaps surprise, contempt, aggression, playfulness, delight ...
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... thought/feeling flies into the face with “ascend,” “heaven” and “invention” suggesting the level of mental effort it is going to take to imagine what comes next. The energy is maintained in the sounds and the images of “a kingdom for a ...
... thought/feeling flies into the face with “ascend,” “heaven” and “invention” suggesting the level of mental effort it is going to take to imagine what comes next. The energy is maintained in the sounds and the images of “a kingdom for a ...
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... feel the darkness del grito. Quiero of the scream. I want palabras asperas, rough words, como piedras virgenes. like virgin rocks. Neruda refers to sight, touch, taste and feeling ... thought. They reach into emotions, memories, associations ...
... feel the darkness del grito. Quiero of the scream. I want palabras asperas, rough words, como piedras virgenes. like virgin rocks. Neruda refers to sight, touch, taste and feeling ... thought. They reach into emotions, memories, associations ...
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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