Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text

by Kristin Linklater

Book Overview

A passionate exploration of the process of comprehending and speaking the words of William Shakespeare. Detailing exercises and analyzing characters' speech and rhythms, Linklater provides the tools... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559360313
• ISBN13: 9781559360319
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

How to take your Shakespeare to the next level

In one of the most eloquent handbooks I've ever had the pleasure to peruse, Kristin Linklater guides you through a rich and expertly constructed path designed to help you give your voice to Shakespeare's text. For her, the body and the voice are one: an instrument that needs each part to work. To speak the speech, you start with how it sounds - the open vowels and clear consonants each bring a unique bodily sensation. Then you progress to what it actually means - the content, the "emotional", the life - and later bring this to poetic form. Ms.L insists you also understand Th' Elizabethans and their take on life - her explanations always held me rapt. Her methods are direct; each chapter builds upon the one that came before. However, this shouldn't mean the structure is rigid: there's lots of room for your experiments. This book is one of my best purchases.

Absolute necessary for the Shakespearean Scholar

The master teacher Kristin Linklater has written a user-friendly, brilliant book on her approach to Shakespeare's language. Anyone interested in reading or performing Shakespeare shouldn't be without it.