Once more unto the speech, dear friends : monologues from Shakespeare's first folio with modern text versions for comparison
William Shakespeare, Neil Freeman (Compiler, Editor, Writer of added commentary)
There has been a great change over the last twenty years in actor auditions, which now require the demonstration of enormous flexibility. The actor is often expected to show more range than ever before, and often several shorter audition speeches are asked for instead of one or two longer ones. To stay at the top of his or her game, the Shakespearean actor needs more knowledge of what makes the play tick, especially since the early plays demand a different style from the later ones. Each genre (comedy, history, tragedy) has different requirements. Parts written for the older, more experienced actors require a different approach from those written for young actors, especially the female ones, played in Shakespeare's day by young actors extraordinarily skilled in the art of rhetoric
Print Book, English, ©2006
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books ; Sales & distribution, Hal Leonard Corp., New York, Milwaukee, WI, ©2006
monologues
volumes <1-2> ; 28 cm
9781557836564, 9781557836557, 9781557836571, 1557836566, 1557836558, 1557836574
61864164
v. 1. The comedies
General introduction
Preface and brief background to the first folio
Introduction
Principles applicable to all the plays
Exploring the comedies
Summary
How the three columns work visually
Speeches
Comedy of errors
Two gentlemen of Verona
The taming of the shrew
Love's labour's lost
A midsummer night's dream
The merchant of Venice
Much ado about nothing
The merry wives of Windsor
As you like it
Twelfth night
Measure for measure
All's well that ends well
The winter's tale
The tempest
v. 2. The histories
General introduction
Preface and brief background to the first folio
Introduction
Principles applicable to all the plays
Exploring the histories
Speeches
Henry VI Part 1
Henry VI Part 2
Henry VI Part 3
Richard III
King John
Richard II
Henry IV Part 1
Henry IV Part 2
Henry V
Henry VIII
v. 3. The tragedies
General introduction
Preface and brief background to the first folio
Introduction
Principles applicable to all the plays
Exploring the tragedies
Summary
How the three columns work visually
Speeches
Titus Andronicus
Romeo & Juliet
Julius Cæsar
Hamlet
Troylus & Cressida
Othello
Macbeth
Timon of Athens
King Lear
Coriolanus
Anthony & Cleopatra
Cymbeline