An Actor's Edition of Shakespeare RevisitedAuthorHouse, 26.07.2007 - 516 Seiten An Actor’s Edition of Shakespeare Revisited is a book for actors, directors, professors of theatre and the general public. Each of the plays has been edited for more understandability and length. The intent of the book was to make the works more accessible without making the language modern. When audiences see a Shakespeare play, they have only one time to grasp the words as they are spoken. Audience members do not have time to look at lengthy explanations or notes about words or expressions. Therefore, this edition of these five plays, presents the plays so that audience members as well as actors can follow the plays with little difficulty. Some words have been changed to accomplish this. In certain speeches, subjects or verbs were supplied for understandability. Because Shakespeare used many pronouns, these plays make use of more nouns so that the meaning of who or what is being spoken about becomes more clear.
The book also has some useful tools for the director and actors. A chart has been provided for each play that lists each character by act and scene. This can be very useful when there is a need to double cast actors. In addition, a “combination roles” page has also been added which gives suggestions for doubling parts for a smaller company. To help at rehearsals, page numbers for the beginning of each act and scene is provided on a single page for each play. Finally, each play has been broken into “beats” for the actor and the director. It is the hope of the author of this book that more people will find excitement in reading, performing, staging, or viewing Shakespeare because of the edited versions for understandability. Enjoy the plays---either reading or performing. |
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... what he wants within each beat . It has been my experience that working with less trained or less experienced actors , they tend to want to read a line too fast , generally in one breath from the first word of a sentence to the period ...
... What are these , So withered , and so wild in their attire , That look not like th ' inhabitants o ' th ' earth And yet are on ' t ? ( To witches ) -Live you ? Or are you any thing that man may question ? ( Witches put fingers by lips ...
... What thou wouldst greatly like to have , Thou wouldst like to have in a virtuous way . Great Glamis , thou desire'st what calls for a great deed , Yet thou art too fearful to do it . Make haste , That I may pour my energy in thine ear ...
... What beast was ' t . That made you break this undertaking to me ? When you dared do it , then you were a man ; And to be more than what you were , you would Be so much more the man . Nor time nor place Did then agree , and yet you would ...
... O horror , horror , horror ! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee ! MACBETH and LENNOX : What's the matter ? MACDUFF : MACBETH : Destruction now hath made its masterpiece 37 An Actor's Edition of Shakespeare Revisited.