Shakespeare And The Actors

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198703297

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Great Shakespeare Actors by Stanley Wells Pdf

Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and Kenneth Branagh. Individual chapters tell the story of their subjects' careers, but together these overlapping tales combine to offer a succinct, actor-centred history of Shakespearian theatrical performance. Stanley Wells examines what it takes to be a great Shakespeare actor and then offers a concise sketch of each actor's career in Shakespeare, an assessment of their specific talents and claims to greatness, and an account, drawing on contemporary reviews, biographies, anecdotes, and, for some of the more recent actors, the author's personal memories of their most notable performances in Shakespeare roles.

Author : Patrick Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135862336

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Secrets of Acting Shakespeare by Patrick Tucker Pdf

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn't a book that gently instructs. It's a passionate, yes-you-can designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. By explaining how Elizabethan actors had only their own lines and not entire playscripts, Patrick Tucker shows how much these plays work by ear. Secrets of Acting Shakespeare is a book for actors trained and amateur, as well as for anyone curious about how the Elizabethan theater worked.

Author : Julian Curry
Publisher : Nick Hern Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1848420773

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Shakespeare on Stage by Julian Curry Pdf

Thirteen leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles. * Brian Cox on Titus Andronicus in Deborah Warner's visceral RSC production * Judi Dench on being directed by Franco Zeffirelli as a twenty-three-year-old Juliet * Ralph Fiennes on Shakespeare's least sympathetic hero Coriolanus * Rebecca Hall on Rosalind in As You Like It, directed by her father, Sir Peter * Derek Jacobi on his hilariously poker-backed Malvolio for Michael Grandage * Jude Law on his Hamlet, a palpable hit in the West End and on Broadway * Adrian Lester on a modern-dress Henry V at the National, during the invasion of Iraq * Ian McKellen on his Macbeth, opposite Judi Dench in Trevor Nunn's RSC production * Helen Mirren on a role she was born for, and has played three times: Cleopatra * Tim Pigott-Smith on Leontes in Peter Hall's Restoration Winter's Tale at the National * Kevin Spacey on his high-tech, modern-dress Richard II * Patrick Stewart on Prospero in Rupert Goold's arctic Tempest for the RSC * Penelope Wilton on Isabella in Jonathan Miller's 'chamber' Measure for Measure The actors discuss their characters, working through the play scene by scene, with refreshing candour and in forensic detail. The result is a masterclass on playing each role, invaluable for other actors and directors, as well as students of Shakespeare - and fascinating for audiences of the plays. Together, the interviews give one of the most comprehensive pictures yet of these characters in performance, and of the choices that these great actors have made in bringing them thrillingly to life. 'These passages of times remembered contribute vividly to the sense of a teemingly creative period when Shakespeare seemed to have been rediscovered.' Trevor Nunn, from his Foreword

Author : Meredith Anne Skura
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0226761800

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Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing by Meredith Anne Skura Pdf

For the Renaissance, all the world may have been a stage and all its people players, but Shakespeare was also an actor on the literal stage. Meredith Anne Skura asks what it meant to be an actor in Shakespeare's England and shows why a knowledge of actual theatrical practices is essential for understanding both Shakespeare's plays and the theatricality of everyday life in early modern England. Despite the obvious differences between our theater and Shakespeare's, sixteenth-century testimony suggests that the experience of acting has not changed much over the centuries. Beginning with a psychoanalytically informed account of acting today, Skura shows how this intense and ambivalent experience appears not only in literal references to acting in Shakespearean drama but also in recurring narrative concerns, details of language, and dramatic strategies used to engage the audience. Looking at the plays in the context of both public and private worlds outside the theater, Skura rereads the canon to identify new configurations in the plays and new ways of understanding theatrical self-consciousness in Renaissance England. Rich in theatrical, psychoanalytic, biographical, and historical insight, this book will be invaluable to students of Shakespeare and instructive to all readers interested in the dynamics of performance.

Author : John Barton
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307773913

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Playing Shakespeare by John Barton Pdf

Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director 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 in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare’s most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.

Author : Arthur Colby Sprague
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010541659

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Shakespeare and the Actors by Arthur Colby Sprague Pdf

Author : Errol Hill
Publisher : Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Actors, Black
ISBN : UOM:39076000892641

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Shakespeare in Sable by Errol Hill Pdf

Author : Robert Cohen
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Acting
ISBN : UCSC:32106018558954

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Acting in Shakespeare by Robert Cohen Pdf

Acting in Shakespeare helps actors at all levels develop the skills they need to perform in Shakespeare plays. Lessons proceed in carefully graduated stps from simple, single lines to short speeches to more difficult, sophisticated scenes. A wealth of historical information and insightful descriptions of Shakespearean times and players bring Shakespeare's work within the actor's reach.

Author : Arthur Colby Sprague
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:408155496

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Shakespeare and the Actors by Arthur Colby Sprague Pdf

Author : John H. Astington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139788519

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Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time by John H. Astington Pdf

John Astington brings the acting style of the Shakespearean period to life, describing and analysing the art of the player in the English professional theatre between Richard Tarlton and Thomas Betterton. The book pays close attention to the cultural context of stage playing, the critical language used about it, and the kinds of training and professional practice employed in the theatre at various times over the course of roughly one hundred years - 1558–1660. Perfect for courses, this survey takes into account recent discoveries about actors and their social networks, about apprenticeship and company affiliations, and about playing outside the major centre of theatre, London. Astington considers the educational tradition of playing, in schools, universities, legal inns, and choral communities, in comparison to the work of the professional players. A comprehensive biographical dictionary of all major professional players of the Shakespearean period is included as a handy reference guide.

Author : John Payne Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Actors
ISBN : IND:30000029285388

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Memoirs of the Principal Actors in the Plays of Shakespeare by John Payne Collier Pdf

Author : David Grote
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313012747

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The Best Actors in the World by David Grote Pdf

Shakespeare knew actors because he was one. The first book-length study of its kind, this volume investigates Shakespeare as a member of his acting company, dating and casting all the plays they presented from 1594 to 1614, and exploring the effects of actors on his writing. Much has been written about Shakespeare and a great deal is known about the Elizabethan theater. Yet little has been done to examine Shakespeare in relation to his acting company. This book casts light on Shakespeare's life in drama and the creation and staging of his plays. More precisely than any other work, it establishes the dates for his company's productions, exploring the varied and profound influences actors had on the works of Renaissance dramatists, and giving us a unique look at the man who knew his actors best of all. As a member of the newly organized Chamberlain's Men, a company that rose to fame in the London theater, Shakespeare experienced the numerous crises, both personal and political, that nearly destroyed the company at the construction of the Globe. Grote describes the company's reorganization as the King's Men, which led to the writing of Shakespeare's great tragedies, as well as the trials of the plague years, Shakespeare's retirement from the stage, the development of writers to replace him, and the burning of the Globe.

Author : Lauren Gunderson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822237723

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The Book of Will by Lauren Gunderson Pdf

Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.

Author : Mary Z. Maher
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0879103647

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Actors Talk about Shakespeare by Mary Z. Maher Pdf

Offers interviews with American, Canadian, and British actors who speak about the challenges and rewards of performing Shakespeare's works.

Author : Linda Gates
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810139916

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Speaking in Shakespeare's Voice by Linda Gates Pdf

Speaking in Shakespeare's Voice: A Guide for American Actors is a book for undergraduate and graduate students of acting as well as for the professional who would like to perform Shakespeare with the skill of a classical actor. It is also valuable for European actors interested in performing Shakespeare in American English and British actors who would like to explore Shakespeare from an American perspective. This guide focuses on the technical elements of voice and speech, including breathing, resonance, and diction, as well as providing an introduction to verse speaking and scansion and to Shakespeare’s rhetorical devices, such as antithesis, alliteration, onomatopoeia, irony, metaphor, and wordplay. These topics are annotated with examples from Shakespeare’s plays to demonstrate how an actor can apply the lessons to actual performance. The book also explores the history of Shakespearean performance in the United States and provides guidance on current editions of Shakespeare’s text from the Folio to online Open Source Shakespeare. A helpful appendix offers examples of two-person scenes and contextualized monologues.