Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text - Couverture souple

Linklater, Kristin

 
9781559360319: Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text

Synopsis

A 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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Présentation de l'éditeur

Taking many of the techniques explored in her international bestseller Freeing the Natural Voice, in this companion volume Kristin Linklater shows how to apply them to the speaking of Shakespeare's language.

Beginning with exercises designed to break long-held habits and allow an emotional rather than intellectual relationship to Elizabethan language, she analyses Shakespeare's strategies for creating character, story and meaning through figures of speech, iambic pentameter, rhyme and the alternation of verse and prose. Using copious examples from the plays, Linklater offers her readers the tools to increase understanding and make Shakespeare's words their own.

Biographie de l'auteur

KRISTIN LINKLATER was born in 1936 and brought up in the Orkneys. Her father was the novelist Eric Linklater, and her brothers, Magnus and Andro, are both writers. She trained in London at LAMDA before moving to the USA to work with a number of well-known theatres there, returning occasionally to work with the RSC. She has just retired as Professor of Theatre Arts at Columbia University, New York.

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