Playing Shakespeare

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Playing Shakespeare

John Barton ; with a foreword by Trevor Nunn

Methuen Drama, 2009, c1984

  • : pbk.

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Includes index

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Contents of Works

  • The two traditions : Elizabethan and modern acting
  • Using the verse : heightened and naturalistic verse
  • Language and character : making the words one's own
  • Using the prose : why does Shakespeare use prose?
  • Set speeches and soliloquies : taking the audience with you
  • Using the sonnets : going over some old ground
  • Irony and ambiguity : text that isn't what it seems
  • Passion and coolness : a question of balance
  • Rehearsing the text : Orsino and Viola
  • Exploring a character : playing Shylock
  • Contemporary Shakespeare : a discussion
  • Poetry and hidden poetry : three kinds of failure

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