Instant Shakespeare : a proven technique for actors, directors, and teachers /
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| Author / Creator: | Fantasia, Louis, 1949- |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2002. |
| Description: | 213 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4692181 |
Table of Contents:
- Prelude: Banging at Swords
- Introduction: The Absence of Presence
- Part 1. Pre-Performance--Instant Shakespeare!
- 1. Know What the Words Really Mean--Dialogue
- 2. The Histrionic Sensibility
- 3. Whose Frog Is It Anyway?
- 4. Exercise Monologues
- 5. Know Where the Play Is Going--Structure
- 6. Know the Rhythm and Sense of the Line--Character
- 7. Know What the Play Is About--The Central Event
- Interlude: More Banging at Swords: Encounters at Shakespeare's Globe, 1981-1997
- Part 2. Aspects of Performance
- 8. Transitions from Reading to Performance
- 9. Scenes for Exercises
- 10. Aspects of Performance: Breath and Impulse
- 11. Aspects of Performance: A Practical Study of the Breath
- 12. Isabella's Voice
- 13. The Ephemeral Nature of the Theatrical Event
- 14. A Philosophy of Training and Performance
- 15. Presence and the Ontological Sensibility
- Epilogue: Still Banging at Swords--Optional Authenticity and Shakespeare's Globe, 1997-2001
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Sources
- Index