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Secrets of acting Shakespeare : the original approach / Patrick Tucker.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3091 .T83 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tucker, Patrick, 1941- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Acting.
- Theater.
- Physical Description:
- 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- Summary:
- Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn't a book that gently instructs. It is a passionate, yes-you-can guide designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. Patrick Tucker's classic manual encourages trained and amateur actors alike to look to the original practices of the Elizabethan theatre for inspiration, as well as providing new insights to theatre directors, and to scholars in schools and universities. Tucker explores the "Cue Scripts" used by actors, who knew only their own lines, to demonstrate the extraordinary way that these plays work by ear. This updated second edition includes: a section dedicated to the modes of address "thee" and "you"; a brand new chapter on Original Practices and "Cue Scripts"; an expanded genealogical chart, showing the interrelations of 92 different characters from the history plays; and a new discussion of Elizabethan acting spaces - balconies, gates, ramparts and even backstage areas. Secrets of Acting Shakespeare is a must-read for actors intrigued by the "Original Approach" to acting Shakespeare, or for anyone curious about how the Elizabethan theater worked. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The 30 secrets
- The research
- The evidence
- The experiment
- The performances
- The First Folio
- Original practices
- Understanding through acting
- The secrets expanded and explained
- The plays and the clues
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-370) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781138678514
- 1138678511
- 9781138678521
- 113867852X
- OCLC:
- 948176053
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