Players Of Shakespeare 1

Author : Philip Brockbank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521368179
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Players of Shakespeare 1 written by Philip Brockbank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-07-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve actors describe their preparation for and performance of a Shakespearean role with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The result is an account of the instability of the actor's art as well of his professional discipline.

Author : John Southworth
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752472445
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare the Player written by John Southworth and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man of the Millennium' he may be but William Shakespeare is a shadowy historical figures. His writings have been analysed exhaustively but much of his life remains a mystery. This controversial biography aims to redress the balance. To his contemporaries, Shakespeare was known not as a playwright but as an actor, yet this has been largely ignored or marginalised by most modern writers. here John Southworth overturns traditional images of the Bard and his work, arguing that Shakespeare cannot be separated from his profession as a player any more than he can be separated from his works. Only by approaching Shakespeare's life from this new angle can we hope to learn or understand anything new about him. Following Shakespeare's life as an actor as he learns his craft and begins work on his own plays, Southworth presents the Bard and his plays in their proper context for the first time. Groundbreaking, contentious and a work of deep scholarship and understanding, 'Shakespeare the Player' should change the way we think about the English language's greatest artist.

Author : John Barton
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307773914
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing Shakespeare written by John Barton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Philip Brockbank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Players of Shakespeare written by Philip Brockbank and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Brockbank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
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Download or read book Players of Shakespeare written by Philip Brockbank and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bertram Fields
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060775599
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Players written by Bertram Fields and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays departed completely from the rules of classical drama. They spanned too much time, had too many settings, and combined humor with tragedy.

Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521389037
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Players of Shakespeare 2 written by Russell Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Fourteen actors describe the Shakespearean roles they played in productions between 1982 and 1987. The contributors are Roger Allam, Frances Barber, Kenneth Branagh, Niamh Cusack, Ben Kingsley, Ian McDiarmid, Daniel Massey, Edward Petherbridge, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Antony Sher, Juliet Stevenson, David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker. Each gives a unique insight into the preparation and performance of a major Shakespearean role and how a character is created through responding to Shakespeare's text, within the context of a particular director's conception and the environment established by the designer. A brief biographical note is provided for each of the contributors and an introduction places the essays in the context of the Stratford and London stages, and of the music and design for the particular productions.

Author : Simon Palfrey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199272050
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in Parts written by Simon Palfrey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly groundbreaking collaboration of original theatre history with exciting literary criticism, Shakespeare in Parts is the first book fully to explore the original form in which Shakespeare's drama overwhelmingly circulated. This was not the full play-text; it was not the public performance. It was the actor's part, consisting of the bare cues and speeches of each individual role. With group rehearsals rare or non-existent, the cued part alone had to furnish the actor with his character. But each such part-text was riddled with gaps and uncertainties. The actor knew what he was going to say, but not necessarily when, or why, or to whom; he may have known next to nothing of any other part. Starting with a comprehensive history of the part in early modern theatre, Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern's work provides a unique keyhole onto hitherto forgotten practices and techniques. It not only discovers a newly active, choice-ridden actor, but a new Shakespeare.

Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521477345
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Players of Shakespeare 3 written by Russell Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen actors describe the Shakespearean roles they played with the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1987 and 1991. The anthology includes the Company's highly successful adaptation of the Henry VI plays retitled The Plantagenets.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As You Like it written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: