Ebook: Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: the Actor's Guide to Talking the Text

Prologue; Introduction; THE CONTENT: Language; 1. Vowels and Consonants; 2. Words and Images; 3. Words Into Phrases; 4. Organically, Cosmically, and Etymologically Speaking; 5. Figures of Speech; INTERLUDE: Stage Directions -- Double Meanings -- Bawdry -- Thee's Thou's and You's; THE FORM: Verse and Prose; 6. The Iambic Pentameter; 7. Rhyme; 8. Line-endings; 9. Verse and Prose Alternation; THE CONTEXTURE; 10. Today's Actor in Shakespeare's World; 11. Shakespeare's Voice in Today's World; 12. Which Voice? The Texts; 13. Whose Voice? The Man.;A passionate exploration of the process of comprehending and speaking the words of William Shakespeare. Detailing exercises and analyzing characters' speech and rhythms, Linklater provides the tools to increase understanding and make Shakespeare's words one's own.