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

Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text
ISBN-10
1559360313
ISBN-13
9781559360319
Category
Drama
Pages
214
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
Theatre Communications Grou
Author
Kristin Linklater

Description

Beginning with exercises designed to break long-held habits and allow an emotional rather than intellectual relationship to Elizabethan language, Kristin Linklater analyses Shakespeare's strategies for creating character, story and meaning through figures of speech, iambic pentameter, rhyme and the alternation of verse and prose.

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