Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Tex by Linklater, Kristin
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Absolute necessary for the Shakespearean Scholar,
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This review is from: Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text (Paperback)
The master teacher Kristin Linklater has written a user-friendly, brilliant book on her approach to Shakespeare's language. Anyone interested in reading or performing Shakespeare shouldn't be without it.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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How to take your Shakespeare to the next level,
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This review is from: Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text (Paperback)
In one of the most eloquent handbooks
I've ever had the pleasure to peruse, Kristin Linklater guides you through a rich and expertly constructed path designed to help you give your voice to Shakespeare's text. For her, the body and the voice are one: an instrument that needs each part to work. To speak the speech, you start with how it sounds - the open vowels and clear consonants each bring a unique bodily sensation. Then you progress to what it actually means - the content, the "emotional", the life - and later bring this to poetic form. Ms.L insists you also understand Th' Elizabethans and their take on life - her explanations always held me rapt. Her methods are direct; each chapter builds upon the one that came before. However, this shouldn't mean the structure is rigid: there's lots of room for your experiments. This book is one of my best purchases.
7 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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All caught up in technical lingo,
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This review is from: Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text (Paperback)
This book has some good ideas but it is somewhat too cumbersome in it's technical language. It took several read overs to really understand what Kristin was trying invoke. This book is not a good source for new actors but may be more appropriate for those in upper college theater/drama class or master classes.
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My intention in this book is to offer a de-mystifying approach to speaking Shakespeare's text. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
triple antithesis, being counted falsehood, mightst thou speak, wrackful siege, battering days, chest lie hid, double antithesis, fearful meditation, honey breath hold, rocks impregnable, swelling scene, holy palmers, mine integrity, brightest heaven, iambic rhythm, grant thou, sprung rhythm, pentameter line, iambic pentameter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Folio, King Lear, Queen Margaret, The Winter's Tale, Dromio of Ephesus, Lady Anne, Lady Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, Queen Elizabeth, Twelfth Night, Antipholus of Ephesus, King Henry, Dromio of Syracuse, King Richard, Master Sonnet, Complete Works, Great Chain of Being, Love's Labour's Lost, The Tempest, King John, Neil Freeman New!
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My intention in this book is to offer a de-mystifying approach to speaking Shakespeare's text. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
triple antithesis, being counted falsehood, mightst thou speak, wrackful siege, battering days, chest lie hid, double antithesis, fearful meditation, honey breath hold, rocks impregnable, swelling scene, holy palmers, mine integrity, brightest heaven, iambic rhythm, grant thou, sprung rhythm, pentameter line, iambic pentameter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Folio, King Lear, Queen Margaret, The Winter's Tale, Dromio of Ephesus, Lady Anne, Lady Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, Queen Elizabeth, Twelfth Night, Antipholus of Ephesus, King Henry, Dromio of Syracuse, King Richard, Master Sonnet, Complete Works, Great Chain of Being, Love's Labour's Lost, The Tempest, King John, Neil Freeman New!
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- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Simply Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
- Romeo And Juliet (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Saddleback Classics) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
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- Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance by William B. Worthen on 4 pages
- Shakespeare, Theory and Performance by James C. Bulman on page 112, and Index
- Shakespeare and Feminist Performance: Ideology on Stage (Accents on Shakespeare) by Sarah Werner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Shakespeare After Mass Media by Prof. Richard Burt on page 125, and page 126
- Shakespeare After Mass Media by Prof. Richard Burt on page 125, and page 126
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