Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed

Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed
Author: Bill Kincaid
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2018-03-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 135113616X

Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed: A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare outlines how Shakespeare’s plays can be performed effectively without rehearsal, if all the actors understand a set of performance guidelines and put them into practice. Each chapter is devoted to a specific guideline, demonstrating through examples how it can be applied to pieces of text from Shakespeare’s First Folio, how it creates blocking and stage business, and how it enhances story clarity. Once the guidelines have been established, practical means of production are discussed, providing the reader with sufficient step-by-step instruction to prepare for Unrehearsed performances. This book is written for the actor and performer.

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare
Author: Patrick Tucker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1135862265

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn't a book that gently instructs. It's a passionate, yes-you-can designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. By explaining how Elizabethan actors had only their own lines and not entire playscripts, Patrick Tucker shows how much these plays work by ear. Secrets of Acting Shakespeare is a book for actors trained and amateur, as well as for anyone curious about how the Elizabethan theater worked.

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare
Author: Patrick Tucker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317192931

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. He 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 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.

Shakespeare, Memory and Performance

Shakespeare, Memory and Performance
Author: Peter Holland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2006-11-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521863805

This collection by leading Shakespeare scholars, first published in 2006, brings together memory and performance.

Performing Shakespeare: A Way to Learn

Performing Shakespeare: A Way to Learn
Author: Robert Sugarman
Publisher: Mountainside Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN: 0983255814

Successful second grade, fifth grade and high school programs are analyzed to help teachers, directors and leaders of social programs enrich their work by performing Shakespeare with young people.

Mozart's Music of Friends

Mozart's Music of Friends
Author: Edward Klorman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2016-04-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1107093651

This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance
Author: James C. Bulman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 705
Release: 2017-11-16
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0191510815

The Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespeare specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field. Shakespearean performance criticism has firmly established itself as a discipline accessible to scholars and general readers alike. And just as performances of the plays expand audiences' understanding of how Shakespeare speaks to them, so performance criticism is continually shifting the contours of the discipline. The 36 contributions in this volume represent the most current approaches to Shakespeare in performance. They are divided into four parts. Part I explores how experimental modes of performance ensure Shakespeare's contemporaneity. Part II tackles the burgeoning field of reception: how and why audiences respond to performances as they do. Part III addresses the ways in which technology has revolutionized our access to Shakespeare, both through the mediums of film and sound recording and through digitalization. Part IV grapples with 'global' Shakespeare, considering matters of cultural appropriation in productions played for international audiences. Together, these ground-breaking essays attest to the richness and diversity of Shakespearean performance criticism as it is practiced today

Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas

Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas
Author: Ellen Rosand
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2022-07-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0429575157

Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi’s late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective. The premise of the volume is the idea that constructive dialogue between musicologists and musicians, stage directors and theater historians, as well as philologists and literary critics can shed new light on Monteverdi’s two Venetian operas (and their respective librettos, by Badoaro and Busenello), not only at the levels of textual criticism, historical exegesis, and dramaturgy, but also with regard to concrete choices of performance, staging, and mise-en-scène. Following an Introduction setting up the interdisciplinary agenda, the volume comprises two main parts: ‘Contexts and Sources’ deals with the historical, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts of the works - librettos and scores; 'Performance and Interpretation’ offers critical and historical insights regarding the casting, singing, reciting, staging, and conducting of the two operas. This volume will appeal to scholars and researchers in Opera Studies and Music History as well as be of interest to early music performers and all those involved with presenting opera on stage.

Performing Shakespeare's Women

Performing Shakespeare's Women
Author: Paige Martin Reynolds
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2018-12-13
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1350002615

Shakespeare's women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in Shakespeare's works often find themselves 'playing dead.' But what does it mean to 'play dead', particularly for women actors, whose bodies become scrutinized and anatomized by audiences and fellow actors who 'grossly gape on'? In what ways does playing Shakespeare's women when they are dead emblematize the difficulties of playing them while they are still alive? Ultimately, what is at stake for the female actor who embodies Shakespeare's women today, dead or alive? Situated at the intersection of the creative and the critical, Performing Shakespeare's Women: Playing Dead engages performance history, current scholarship and the practical problems facing the female actor of Shakespeare's plays when it comes to 'playing dead' on the contemporary stage and in a post-feminist world. This book explores the consequences of corpsing Shakespeare's women, considering important ethical questions that matter to practitioners, students and critics of Shakespeare today.

Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio

Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio
Author: Don Weingust
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135864101

æOriginalÆ Shakespearean theatrical architecture, texts and performance methodologies have become subjects of great popular, professional and academic theatrical interest. Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio: Theory, Text & Performance examines a.