Elizabethan actors had no Stanlavski, Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, Meyerhold, Grotowski etc. type schools of thought attached to their acting. They had senses, memory, and imagination. An actor given a cue script has no context, only text. […]
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Macbeth is about a man who should have been King but was murdered by his noble partner and supposed best friend. Or simply put: AMBITION. Or rather ambition thwarted. We know it is a tragedy and that means the title character will inevitably die. […] ORIGINAL PRACTICE-THE SCOTTISH i.e. The words first. Shakespeare second. Or, Character as defined by the words. MACBETH Male 715 lines LADY Female 259 lines MALCOLM Male 211 lines MACDUFF Male 180 lines ROSS Male 135 lines BANQUO Male 113 lines Banquo the warrior and king-maker, with his 6th largest speaking role, our focus and his […] The old joke typifies my acting career: ‘I didn’t get into acting for fame and fortune. And so far it’s working.’ Like Rita I made a choice. And like her it was the only choice i could make. Without this, mere oblivion. I didn’t choose acting, it chose me. […] What’s in a name? Love this discussion about Petruchio. In Q2 of Romeo and Juliet (1599), at what modern editors would number 3.1.90, occurs a line of type, centered and reading “Away Tybalt.” It looks like a stage direction, and is so taken by most editors. But in 1960, George Walton Williams wrote an […] 1. POEMS ABOUT Shakespeare 6435 reads. Always been the leader of the pack this one. 2. POEMS ABOUT Language… 4045 reads. One of my favourite sections. 3. A PAPER – A Prosodic Odyssey: Sorting the sonnets from page to stage. 2351 reads. A paper on the quarto of sonnets and its contents. 4. GUEST […] We all know women, and particularly the roles Will wrote for women, were never acted by women on the Elizabethan stage. But structurally men or boys rather took the women’s roles. (Cross-dressing seemingly being in the English genes from Panto to POW camps ever since). The French allowed women on their stages, the Spanish too. So why not the English? […] Rhetoricians identify two ways in which passions are represented in recitation: through NOMBRE or the rates of speech and ACCENS or tones of voice. […] Shakespeare never mentions Tarot cards. And Lewis in King John has this to say about cards: Have I not here the best cards for the game, To win this easy match play’d for a crown? And shall I now give o’er the yielded set? No, no, on my soul, it never shall be said. […] Well it’s not just for Shakespeare, but he is mentioned in the same breath as Ovid and Horace and several contemporaries. My latin is lesse than Shakespeare’s so I called in help from visiting linguist David Crystal for a little pre-prandial translation. Several observations arose from this. […] |
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