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Title: Clues to Acting Shakespeare: Skills Clarified for the Actor, Student, and Reader by Wesley Van Tassel ISBN: 1-58115-053-9 Publisher: Allworth Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Teaching Shakespeare in Sec. Schools
Comment: This is a wonderful, clear, simple, step by step guide to teach shakespeare in a secondary classroom. The excercises are clear and easy to implement and the students can see growth right away! Great resource for teachers!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Buy this book!
Comment: This books offers a practical and easy to impliment approach to the study of Shakespeare and using his lanaguage affectively. A great resouce for teachers, directors and actors, Van Tassel outlines a workable set of simple activites that allow the student/actor to find the meaning behind the words. I used this text in a workshop this summer and was amazed at the improvment made in interpretation from first-time actors. A great resource for teachers with inexperienced students. As an teacher, the middle section is invaluable, with clear examples of how to present the exercises. As an actor myself, i will take the lesson into my own performances. This book will not sit on your bookshelf - its clear, understandable, practical and just the right length for a busy theatrical professional! A great find!
Rating: 5
Summary: "Library Journal" review posted here
Comment: Here is the "Library Journal" September 1, 2000 review of "Clues to Acting Shakespeare" by Wesley Van Tassel and "A Shakespearean Actor Prepares" by Adrian Brine and Michael York. For centuries, actors have known what the American hoi polloi, through the efforts of Kenneth Branagh, films like "Shakespeare in Love," and eminent critic Harold Bloom's "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human," is now acknowledging: Shakespeare is cool. The venerable dramatic publisher Smith & Kraus, of course, has known this for years and contributes to their fine stable of theatrical thoroughbreds with a fine work from esteemed actor York and European actor, director, and teacher Brine. Geared to actors studying and performing Shakespeare, the instructional and conversational text is also appropriate for nonactor Shakespearean fans. Both Brine and York smoothly blend together their considerable experience and expertise through practical commentaries on language, verse, and soliloquies and an intriguing chapter on Stanislavsky, from whose seminal acting text, "An Actor Prepares," the title is taken. Appendixes include a brief "Who's Who" and a Shakespearean biography, chronology of plays, and reading list. If Brine and York's book, with its elegant pedigree, is a race horse, Van Tassel's beautifully conceived and executed text is a Clydesdale, a workhorse of a workbook that is purposefully divided to reach manifold audiences: College students and independent workshops, high school students and teachers, and professional actors and coaches, with a final resourse section from which everyone can benefit. Through both the instructional narrative and his bountiful exercises, Van Tassel, a director and acting teacher, explicates the basic Shakespearean tenets of scansion, caesura, phrasing, breathing, textual analysis, imagery, structure and rhythm, and antithesis, and he does it gracefully and appropriately for the diverse readers he intends to reach. This is the kind of helpful instructional aid, both detailed and clear, for which both students and teachers constantly clamor. Both works should be acquired for performing arts collections, by "Clues to Acting Shakespeare" is a no-brainer purchase for acting collections in all libraries.-- Barry X. Miller: Austin P.L., Texas
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Title: Playing Shakespeare : An Actor's Guide by John Barton ISBN: 0385720858 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 21 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Speaking Shakespeare by Patsy Rodenburg ISBN: 0312294204 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 17 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: A Shakespearean Actor Prepares by Adrian Brine, Michael York ISBN: 1575251892 Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Secrets of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach by Patrick Tucker ISBN: 0878300953 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Actor and the Text by Cicely Berry ISBN: 1557831386 Publisher: Applause Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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