Description
Book Synopsis'Adrian Noble vigorously highlights the extraordinary rhythmic, linguistic patterns Shakespeare gives the speaker. Any actor will find this book invaluable. For any student of Shakespeare it should be essential.' (From the Foreword by Ralph Fiennes)
'How can I bring the text alive, make it vivid, how do I make people hear it for the first time? How can I enter into that world and not feel a stranger. How can I not feel clumsy and inept? ... How can I speak it without sounding artificial or actory? In other words, how can I make it real ...?'
Adrian Noble has worked on Shakespeare with everyone from oscar-nominated actors to groups of schoolchildren. Here he draws on several decades of top-level directing experience to shed new light on how to bring some of theatreâs seminal texts to life.
He shows you how to approach the perennial issues of performing Shakespeare, including:
- wordplay â using colour and playing plain, wit and comedy, making language musc
Trade Review
'Noble, who has worked with Kenneth Branagh and Ralph Fiennes, achieves a winning mix of the theoretical and the practical' - WhatsOnStage.com
Table of Contents
Part 1 - Principles
1. Apposition
2. Metaphor
3. Metre and pulse
4. Line endings
5. Word play
6. Vocabulary
7. Shape and structure
Part 2 - Practice
8. Early, middle and late
9. Prose
10. Soliloquy
11. Comedy
12. Dialogue
13. Building a Character
14. Conclusion
