Instant Shakespeare

A Proven Technique for Actors, Directors, and Teachers

By: Louis Fantasia

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Hardcover | 29 March 2002

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Fantasia has developed a pragmatic and American performance technique, which has been expanded and refined in performances and workshops throughout the world. "Instant Shakespeare" should allow performers, directors and teachers of all cultures and levels of experience to demystify Shakespeare and perform his texts in ways that are clear, fresh and unpretentious. His methods are based in rigorous analysis of the text and structure of Shakespeare's plays, and enriched by his insight into Elizabethan performance practices gleaned from his association with the reconstruction of the Globe. Employing analogies from music and architecture, he insists upon the hard and sometimes tedious work that necessarily underlies solid artistic choices. He show how to understand Shakespeare's vocabluary as well as the structure and essential dramatic event of each play. He provides exercise monologues, exercise scenes and tools for textual analysis, explains correct breathing and lays out his philosophies of training and performance.

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Accessible to novices...and refreshing for veterans who enjoy viewing familiar matter from a novel perspective.--CHOICE

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Prelude: Banging at Swords	p. 3
Introduction: The Absence of Presence	p. 11
Pre-Performance--Instant Shakespeare!
Know What the Words Really Mean--Dialogue	p. 19
The Histrionic Sensibility	p. 39
Whose Frog Is It Anyway?	p. 44
Exercise Monologues	p. 47
Know Where the Play Is Going--Structure	p. 54
Know the Rhythm and Sense of the Line--Character	p. 63
Know What the Play Is About--The Central Event	p. 78
Interlude: More Banging at Swords: Encounters at Shakespeare's Globe, 1981-1997	p. 95
Aspects of Performance
Transitions from Reading to Performance	p. 107
Scenes for Exercises	p. 113
Aspects of Performance: Breath and Impulse	p. 120
Aspects of Performance: A Practical Study of the Breath	p. 128
Isabella's Voice	p. 142
The Ephemeral Nature of the Theatrical Event	p. 154
A Philosophy of Training and Performance	p. 161
Presence and the Ontological Sensibility	p. 172
Epilogue: Still Banging at Swords--Optional Authenticity and Shakespeare's Globe, 1997-2001	p. 187
Acknowledgments	p. 197
A Note on Sources	p. 199
Index	p. 203
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