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Author
Publisher
World Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1955]
Language
English
Description
A prominent producer-director of Shakespeare's plays writes with wit and verve about the Elizabethan theater and subsequent modifications in theatrical practice, differences between actors and audiences in Shakespeare's day and ours, and more.
Author
Publisher
Smith and Kraus
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare knew more about the art of acting and the art of theater than any other playwright-but there is no general consensus about how Shakespeare should be played. There are no rules. While the Bard created superhuman characters and placed them in situations that stretch the imagination to its limits, he also provided his actors with the keys to playing them. Discover his secrets in this remarkable guide. In A Shakespearean Actor Prepares, actor,...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors including Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet, director John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. Barton 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...
Author
Publisher
Allworth Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Clues to Acting Shakespeare has become a popular guide for actors, directors, teachers and Shakespeare enthusiasts, selling over 15,000 copies of previous editions. This third edition retains the second edition's unique solutions to challenges that face directors and actors at advanced levels and is expanded to include an entirely new section for amateur and community theatre groups. In this new edition, readers will be delighted to find:
New section...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"'Creative and Successful Set Designs' is a helpful resource for set designers, theater teachers, and performing arts directors to use to help avoid common pitfalls when creating the world of their production. Muffatti takes examples of sets from some of the best known works of drama and details the best ways to fully bring the set to life"--
Author
Publisher
Palgrave
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
What do the Dead Sea Scrolls and frog overlays have to do with performing Shakespeare? They're both part of Louis Fantasia's approach in Instant Shakespeare. Mr. Fantasia, the first American to direct at the Shakespeare Globe Centre and a distinguished member of the international theatre community, has developed a pragmatic and uniquely American performance technique. Expanded and refined in performances and workshops throughout the world, Instant...