Performing ShakespeareNick Hern Books, 2007 - 274 pages Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies offers practical advice to actors, directors, and drama students on a wide variety of scenes, characters, speeches, and individual lines from almost every one of the plays. An authoritative, hands-on guide through the practical challenges involved in performing Shakespeare. |
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Page 136
... FILM There are very few guidelines to acting Shakespeare on film , since every director seems to experiment with a different method , but of course everything already said about preparation and re- hearsal still applies ( though you ...
... FILM There are very few guidelines to acting Shakespeare on film , since every director seems to experiment with a different method , but of course everything already said about preparation and re- hearsal still applies ( though you ...
Page 267
... Film and Television , Cambridge University Press , 2004 ; or Shakespeare and the Moving Image : The Plays on Film and Television , eds . Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells , Cambridge University Press , 1994 . DIRECTORS Among the many ...
... Film and Television , Cambridge University Press , 2004 ; or Shakespeare and the Moving Image : The Plays on Film and Television , eds . Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells , Cambridge University Press , 1994 . DIRECTORS Among the many ...
Page 273
... ( film ) , 146 , 155 , 156 Benvolio 7 , 140 Capulet 65 , 72 , 73-4 , 94 Chorus 155-6 Friar Laurence 68 , 69 , 77 , 79 , 80-1 , 108 Juliet 8 , 67 , 72 , 81 , 95 , 121 , 125 , 128 , 145 , 148 , 154 , 227 , 242 quoted 29 , 46 , 156 and Romeo ...
... ( film ) , 146 , 155 , 156 Benvolio 7 , 140 Capulet 65 , 72 , 73-4 , 94 Chorus 155-6 Friar Laurence 68 , 69 , 77 , 79 , 80-1 , 108 Juliet 8 , 67 , 72 , 81 , 95 , 121 , 125 , 128 , 145 , 148 , 154 , 227 , 242 quoted 29 , 46 , 156 and Romeo ...
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