Author : Bertram Fields
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060775599
Shakespeare's plays departed completely from the rules of classical drama. They spanned too much time, had too many settings, and combined humor with tragedy.
Author : John Southworth
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0752472445
Man of the Millennium' he may be but William Shakespeare is a shadowy historical figures. His writings have been analysed exhaustively but much of his life remains a mystery. This controversial biography aims to redress the balance. To his contemporaries, Shakespeare was known not as a playwright but as an actor, yet this has been largely ignored or marginalised by most modern writers. here John Southworth overturns traditional images of the Bard and his work, arguing that Shakespeare cannot be separated from his profession as a player any more than he can be separated from his works. Only by approaching Shakespeare's life from this new angle can we hope to learn or understand anything new about him. Following Shakespeare's life as an actor as he learns his craft and begins work on his own plays, Southworth presents the Bard and his plays in their proper context for the first time. Groundbreaking, contentious and a work of deep scholarship and understanding, 'Shakespeare the Player' should change the way we think about the English language's greatest artist.
Author : Sir Peter Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1849433550
The best-selling guide to acting Shakespeare in a new smaller and lighter handbook size. Shakespeare tells the actor when to go fast and when to go slow; when to pause, when to come in on cue and when to accent a word. His text is full of such clues. He tells the actor when but never tells him why or how. That is up to the actor. Much like bringing a musical score to life, Peter Hall guides us to 'speak the speech'. An essential text for classical training at drama school and an invaluable reference book for actors and directors working on Shakespeare productions. Peter Hall makes watching or reading Shakespeare a richer experience, for audiences as well as actors.
Author : Lauren Gunderson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822237725
Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.
Author : John Barton
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0307773914
Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by explicating Shakespeare’s verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare’s most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.
Author : Sir Peter Hall
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1350262730
The best-selling guide to acting Shakespeare in a new smaller and lighter handbook size. Shakespeare tells the actor when to go fast and when to go slow; when to pause, when to come in on cue and when to accent a word. His text is full of such clues. He tells the actor when but never tells him why or how. That is up to the actor. Much like bringing a musical score to life, Peter Hall guides us to 'speak the speech'. An essential text for classical training at drama school and an invaluable reference book for actors and directors working on Shakespeare productions. Peter Hall makes watching or reading Shakespeare a richer experience, for audiences as well as actors.
Author : John Astington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521192501
Perfect for courses, this book is an account of the first actors in the plays of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jonson.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Richard David
Publisher :
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Author : Philip Brockbank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 1988-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521368179
Twelve actors describe their preparation for and performance of a Shakespearean role with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The result is an account of the instability of the actor's art as well of his professional discipline.
