The Need for Words : Voice and the Text /: Voice and the Text. (2023)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The Need for Words : Voice and the Text /: Voice and the Text. (2023)
- Main Title:
- The Need for Words : Voice and the Text
- Further Information:
- Note: Patsy Rodenburg.
- Authors:
- Rodenburg, Patsy
- Contents:
- About the Author Acknowledgements Foreword Anthony Sher Introduction 1 Let's Consider Shakespeare! PART ONE The Need for Words 1 Connecting with Words The Speaking Act Distrust of Words Returning to Words In the Beginning was the Word The Power of Words The Importance of Oracy The Deeper Need for Words Lost Voices Not Empty Rhetoric Native Eloquence Words are Physical 2 The Breakdown of Words Family Education Conservation The Written Word vs the Spoken Word Speaking Your Way into Writing and Reading Discussion and Debate Training Young Actors Guarding Against Quick Fixes 3 Cultural and Physical Barriers The Age of Cacophony and Image Saturation Embodiment Role Models Speaking in Public The Inability to Listen Tensions and Physical Habits as Barriers Poetry Profanity Language of Gestures Wit and Wordplay Irony and Satire The Tyranny of the Intellectual Codes and Code Breaking The Media and Tabloid Thinking Solipsism Advertising Power Talk or Don't Talk Back The Passion-Mongers Sentimentality Fillers and Clichés Sexual Politics Political Correctness RP or Not RP RP is a Choice Overcoming the Speech Barrier PART TWO Voice and the Text 4 Finding a Voice Releasing Physical BarriersGetting 'In Voice'Focal Points Simple Voice Workout 5 Voice into Words and Text Connecting to a Text Experimenting with Language Sounding Real Language Exercises 6 Working Further with Texts The Marriage between Voice and TextClues from the Great Writers The Poetry Barrier The Structure of Verse The WayAbout the Author Acknowledgements Foreword Anthony Sher Introduction 1 Let's Consider Shakespeare! PART ONE The Need for Words 1 Connecting with Words The Speaking Act Distrust of Words Returning to Words In the Beginning was the Word The Power of Words The Importance of Oracy The Deeper Need for Words Lost Voices Not Empty Rhetoric Native Eloquence Words are Physical 2 The Breakdown of Words Family Education Conservation The Written Word vs the Spoken Word Speaking Your Way into Writing and Reading Discussion and Debate Training Young Actors Guarding Against Quick Fixes 3 Cultural and Physical Barriers The Age of Cacophony and Image Saturation Embodiment Role Models Speaking in Public The Inability to Listen Tensions and Physical Habits as Barriers Poetry Profanity Language of Gestures Wit and Wordplay Irony and Satire The Tyranny of the Intellectual Codes and Code Breaking The Media and Tabloid Thinking Solipsism Advertising Power Talk or Don't Talk Back The Passion-Mongers Sentimentality Fillers and Clichés Sexual Politics Political Correctness RP or Not RP RP is a Choice Overcoming the Speech Barrier PART TWO Voice and the Text 4 Finding a Voice Releasing Physical BarriersGetting 'In Voice'Focal Points Simple Voice Workout 5 Voice into Words and Text Connecting to a Text Experimenting with Language Sounding Real Language Exercises 6 Working Further with Texts The Marriage between Voice and TextClues from the Great Writers The Poetry Barrier The Structure of Verse The Way Words WorkStarting with ShakespeareSpeaking Shakespeare's TextSonnets Shakespeare's SpeechesShakespearean Prose The Verse Duet Medieval Verse Christopher Marlowe John Milton Jacobean Drama A Modern Jacobean Equivalent The Age of Pope and the Age of ReasonRestoration DialogueOscar WildeGeorge Bernard Shaw Styles in Speaking Texts Greek Tragedy Edward BondWilliam BlakeSamuel BeckettHarold Pinter Working with Song Lyrics Bad Texts Prologues and Epilogues Copyright and Permissions Acknowledgements Index. … (more)
- Edition:
- Second edition
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2023
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Subjects:
- Theatre: individual actors & directors
Educational: drama studies
Performing Arts -- Theater -- General
Performing Arts -- Acting & Auditioning
Literary Criticism -- Drama
Acting techniques - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781350290129
1350290122 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781350290112
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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