Speaking Shakespeare - Brossura

Rodenburg, Patsy

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ISBN 10: 1403965404 ISBN 13: 9781403965400

Casa editrice: Griffin, 2004

Riassunto

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 resonance, breathing, and placement to show how an actor can bring Hamlet, Rosalind, Puck and other characters to life. This is one book every working actor must have.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Patsy Rodenburg is the Director of Voice at London's Royal National Theater and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is the author of The Actor Speaks (Palgrave Macmillan 2000).

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Speaking Shakespeare

By Patsy Rodenburg

St. Martin's Press

Copyright © 2002 Patsy Rodenburg
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4039-6540-0

Contents

Title Page, 
Copyright Notice, 
Dedication, 
Acknowledgements, 
Preface, 
Part 1: Foundation Craft, 
Foundation Craft, 
The Body, 
The State of Readiness, 
Breath, 
Support, 
Freeing the Voice, 
Placing the Free Voice, 
Consolidation, 
Deepening the Work, 
Range and Resonance, 
Clear Speech, 
Listening, 
Hamlet's Advice, 
Part 2: Structure, 
The Givens, 
The Word, 
Alliteration, Assonance, Onomatopoeia, 
Rhythm, 
Pauses and Irregularities of Rhythm, 
The Line, 
The Thought and the Structuring of Thoughts, 
The Structure of Scenes, 
Antithesis, 
Rhyme, 
Prose, 
Irony, 
Puns, 
Language games, 
Repetition, 
The Story, 
Location, 
Stage Directions, Props, Entrances and Exits, 
Soliloquy, 
Part 3: The Imaginative, 
The Imaginative Exploration of the Text, 
Anchoring the Text, 
Focus and Energy, 
Summary, 
Part 4: The Speeches, 
Richard III, 
Julius Caesar, 
Measure for Measure, 
King Lear, 
King Lear, 
As You Like It, 
Much Ado About Nothing, 
The Merchant of Venice, 
Othello, 
Henry V, 
The Winter's Tale, 
Macbeth, 
Twelfth Night, 
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 
Antony and Cleopatra, 
Coriolanus, 
Cymbeline, 
King John, 
Part 5: Checklists, 
Preparing the Body, Breath, Voice and Speech, 
The Givens, 
The Imaginative, 
About the Author, 
Also by Patsy Rodenburg, 
Praise for Patsy Rodenburg, 
Copyright, 

CHAPTER 1

Foundation Craft

At the Guildhall School of Music and Drama I don't teach my students Shakespeare until their second year. The reason is pragmatic: until the body, breath, support, voice and speech muscles are thoroughly worked and tuned it is extremely hard to realise and release such physical and sensual texts.

First year work on language sensitises the students to structure, rhythm, imagery and poetry. Language must be important to them – a powerful tool. This means they have to explore how they use language and how language affects them. Many of them have to rediscover the potential of language to make concrete and transform inner and outer worlds. Within a year of language-based exercises they begin to understand how powerful and poetic their own language can be. They realise what an armoury they have at their disposal.

In the first year they learn to memorise accurately and effortlessly so that the momentum and precision of great texts is honoured. There is no substitute for learning texts fully and completely. My students learn passages from complex texts every week. They learn mediaeval, Elizabethan, Metaphysical, eighteenth-century and Romantic texts: they touch base with Chaucer, Spencer, Donne, Milton and Pope. The important part of this training is to learn accurately and to practise regularly. I want them to feel the language – the words, thought structures and images – flowing in their bloodstreams, a familiar part of them rather than something baffling, strange or difficult.

This grounding in language is particularly important for Shakespeare. The passionate exchange of ideas and feeling through words has always been the blood and oxygen of English-speaking theatre, a theatre built on heightened poetic text. In this Shakespeare is the master. His plays are highly struct

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1403965404
• ISBN 13: 9781403965400
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 355
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Germania