Acting Shakespeare / Bertram Joseph.
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TextSeries: Routledge library editions. Shakespeare in performancePublisher: London : Routledge, 2016Description: xx, 199 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138965867 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production | Shakespearean actors and actresses | Acting | Literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 822.3'3 Summary: How did the actors for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays make his characters come to life, how did they convey his words? Can modern directors, actors, and even library readers of Shakespeare learn from them? Creating character and making the Elizabethan playwright's poetry compelling for the audience is a problem which has seldom been resolved in modern times. This book demonstrates the hard course a modern actor must follow to make real and truthful the words he speaks, and the action and emotion underlying them.
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Originally published: New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1960.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How did the actors for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays make his characters come to life, how did they convey his words? Can modern directors, actors, and even library readers of Shakespeare learn from them? Creating character and making the Elizabethan playwright's poetry compelling for the audience is a problem which has seldom been resolved in modern times. This book demonstrates the hard course a modern actor must follow to make real and truthful the words he speaks, and the action and emotion underlying them.
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