Description
Book SynopsisFocuses on the technical elements of voice and speech, including breathing, resonance, and diction, as well as providing an introduction to verse speaking and scansion and to Shakespeare's rhetorical devices, such as antithesis, alliteration, onomatopoeia, irony, and metaphor. These topics are annotated with examples from Shakespeare's plays.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Breathing for Shakespeare's Text
- Chapter 2. Voice Work for Shakespeare
- Chapter 3. The Sounds of English in Shakespeare's Text
- Chapter 4. Shakespeare’s Language: Rhetoric
- Chapter 5. Verse and Prose
- Chapter 6. Shakespeare’s Text
- Appendix. Additional Shakespearean Texts
- Men’s Monologues
- Women’s Monologues
- Two-Person Scenes: Man and Woman
- Two-Person Scenes: Two Women
- Two-Person Scenes: Two Men
