| Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio: Theory, Text and Performance Contributor(s): Weingust, Don (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415979153 ISBN-13: 9780415979153 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: Although it is not the earliest extant version of several of his plays, the First Folio of 1623 is the most important of the editions of Shakespeare's work and has become a sort of Bible for students and interpreters of his plays. Don Weingust examines approaches to the First Folio with an eye to releasing the kinds of information that would be useful in performance. Does the extra syllable here mean the line is to be rushed? Does the odd setting of words indicate a pause in performance? Does the strikingly off-note comma tell us something about the character's state of mind? This book is a valuable contribution to current debate among students of Shakespearean staging, dramaturgy, and Renaissane drama, and reveals enhanced possibilities for Shakespearean performance. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Acting & Auditioning - Performing Arts | Theater - Stagecraft & Scenography - Performing Arts | Theater - Direction & Production |
| Dewey: 792.95 |
| LCCN: 2006011129 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.09" W x 8.56" (0.88 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio examines a series of techniques for reading and performing Shakespeare's plays that are based on the texts of the first 'complete' volume of Shakespeare's works: the First Folio of 1623. Do extra syllables in a line suggest how it might be played? Can Folio commas reveal character? Don Weingust places this work on Folio performance possibility within current understandings about Shakespearean text, describing ways in which these challenging theories about acting often align quite nicely with the work of the theories' critics. As part of this study, Weingust looks at the work of Patrick Tucker and his London-based Original Shakespeare Company, who have sought to discover the opportunities in using First Folio texts, acting techniques, and what they consider to be original Shakespearean performance methodologies. Weingust argues that their experimental performances at the Globe on Bankside have revealed enhanced possibilities not only for performing Shakespeare, but for theatrical practice in general. |