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Playing Shakespeare : an actor's guide

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. He 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, the director 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
Print Book, English, 2001
First Anchor books edition View all formats and editions
Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 2001
Drama
xvii, 265 pages ; 21 cm
9780385720854, 0385720858
45313753
Originally published: London : Methuen Drama, 1984
Companion book based on the recording of 9 workshop programmes made in 1982 by the Royal Shakespeare Company for London Weekend Television and shown on Channel Four in 1984
The 9 workshops are available as videorecordings on videotapes or videodiscs