Shakespearean Verse Speaking
Text and Theatre Practice
- Author: Abigail Rokison, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: November 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107404038
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This book uses evidence from theatrical hand-books, performance practice and drama training to provide a synthesis of academic and theatrical approaches to the Shakespearean text. Abigail Rokison's work combines scholarship with practical exploration in the rehearsal room. In looking at theatrical interaction with early printed and modern edited texts, Rokison investigates the potential impact of editorial principles of lineation and punctuation on theatrical delivery. The book alerts editors to ways in which actors may interpret editorial emendations, and theatre practitioners to diverse authorial, editorial and compositional methods. It contains suggestions for a 'theatrical text' which makes clear the metrical structure of a scene whilst also indicating areas of ambiguous lineation. Providing a fresh perspective on Renaissance actors' parts, the book includes detailed analysis of the structural properties of the verse, in particular short lines, shared lines, end-stopping and enjambment in a range of Shakespearean texts.
Read more- Provides an academic approach to a practical subject, challenging long-standing generalizations and assumptions
- Addresses the issue of how editorial decisions can influence actors' delivery of a text, encouraging a dialogue between the two constituencies
- Provides a new model for a performance text, edited in such a way as to make choices about lineation and punctuation visible to the actor
Awards
- Winner of the 2012 Shakespeare's Globe Book Award
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- Date Published: November 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107404038
- length: 250 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations and conventions
Introduction
1. Current theatrical theories and practice regarding Shakespearean verse speaking
2. Theatrical engagement with the early printed text or modern edited text and modern editorial principles of lineation and punctuation
3. Historical evidence:documentary, anecdotal and textual
4. Internal evidence: a study of nine Shakespearean plays
5. The rehearsal room text
Conclusion
Appendix: rehearsal text of Measure for Measure 2.4
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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