An edition of Playing Shakespeare (1984)

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An edition of Playing Shakespeare (1984)

Playing Shakespeare

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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. Barton 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.

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Methuen in association with Channel Four Television Co.
Language
English
Pages
211

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Subjects
Dramatic production, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, dramatic production
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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Playing Shakespeare: an actor's guide
2001, Anchor Books
in English - 1st Anchor books ed.
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Playing Shakespeare
1984, Methuen in association with Channel Four Television Co.
in English
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Edition Notes

Based on the record of 9 workshop programmes made in 1982 by the Royal Shakespeare Company for London Weekend Television and shown on Channel Four in 1984.

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London, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
792.9
Library of Congress
PR3091 .B37 1984, PR3091

The Physical Object

Pagination
211 p. ;
Number of pages
211

ID Numbers

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OL2574216M
Internet Archive
playingshakespea0000bart
ISBN 10
0413547809, 0413547906
LCCN
85119085
OCLC/WorldCat
12584003, 23130866
Library Thing
151799
Goodreads
2515306
1525785

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"To an actor first approaching Elizabethan theater, Shakespearean verse can seem the most puzzling to interpret. But hidden within the text of every Shakespeare play lie directions, provided by the playwright himself. In Playing Shakespeare, John Barton draws on more than thirty-five years of experience as the Royal Shakespeare Company's associate director to offer a practical guide to how these plays work."--BOOK JACKET.

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