Speaking Shakespeare
by Rodenburg, PatsyFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-07-16
Publisher(s): Griffin
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Summary
In Speaking Shakespeare , Patsy Rodenburg tackles one of the most difficult acting jobs: speaking Shakespeare's words both as they were meant to be spoken and in an understandable and dramatic way. Rodenburg calls this "a simple manual to start the journey into the heart of Shakespeare," and that is what she gives us. With the same insight she displayed in The Actor Speaks , Rodenburg tackles the playing of all Shakespeare's characters. She uses dramatic resonance, breathing, and placement to show how an actor can bring Hamlet, Rosalind, Puck and other characters to life. This is one book every working actor must have.
Author Biography
Patsy Rodenburg is the Director of Voice at London's Royal National Theater and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is the author of The Actor Speaks (Palgrave Macmillan 2000).
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Foundation Craft | |
| Foundation Craft | p. 3 |
| The Body | p. 15 |
| The State of Readiness | p. 23 |
| Breath | p. 30 |
| Support | p. 36 |
| Freeing the Voice | p. 40 |
| Placing the Free Voice | p. 46 |
| Consolidation | p. 50 |
| Deepening the Work | p. 53 |
| Range and Resonance | p. 55 |
| Clear Speech | p. 57 |
| Listening | p. 60 |
| Hamlet's Advice | p. 63 |
| Structure | |
| The Givens | p. 69 |
| The Word | p. 72 |
| Alliteration, Assonance, Onomatopoeia | p. 78 |
| Rhythm | p. 84 |
| Pauses and Irregularities of Rhythm | p. 95 |
| The Line | p. 103 |
| The Thought and the Structuring of Thoughts | p. 108 |
| The Structure of Scenes | p. 120 |
| Antithesis | p. 121 |
| Rhyme | p. 126 |
| Prose | p. 155 |
| Irony | p. 163 |
| Puns | p. 169 |
| Language games | p. 173 |
| Repetition | p. 177 |
| The Story | p. 180 |
| Location | p. 184 |
| Stage Directions, Props, Entrances and Exits | p. 186 |
| Soliloquy | p. 188 |
| The Imaginative | |
| The Imaginative Exploration of the Text | p. 191 |
| Anchoring the Text | p. 201 |
| Focus and Energy | p. 217 |
| Summary | p. 222 |
| The Speeches | |
| Richard III | p. 226 |
| Julius Caesar | p. 236 |
| Measure for Measure | p. 242 |
| King Lear | p. 250 |
| As You Like It | p. 266 |
| Much Ado About Nothing | p. 273 |
| The Merchant of Venice | p. 279 |
| Othello | p. 285 |
| Henry V | p. 292 |
| The Winter's Tale | p. 297 |
| Macbeth | p. 303 |
| Twelfth Night | p. 314 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | p. 325 |
| Antony and Cleopatra | p. 329 |
| Coriolanus | p. 334 |
| Cymbeline | p. 338 |
| King John | p. 344 |
| Checklists | |
| Preparing the Body, Breath, Voice and Speech | p. 351 |
| The Givens | p. 354 |
| The Imaginative | p. 355 |
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