Mastering Shakespeare: An Acting Class in Seven Scenes
- ISBN-10
- 1581159609
- ISBN-13
- 9781581159608
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-01-12
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Scott Kaiser
Description
Who says only the British can act Shakespeare? In this unique guide, a veteran acting coach shatters that myth with a boldly American approach to the Bard. Written in the form of a play, this volume's "characters" include a master teacher and 16 students grappling with the challenges of acting Shakespeare. Using actual speeches from 32 of Shakespeare's plays, each of the book's six "scenes" offer proven solutions to such acting problems as delivering spoken subtext, using physical actions to orchestrate a speech, creating images within a speech, dividing a speech into measures, and much more.
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