Shakespearean Language: A Guide for Actors and StudentsShakespeare was a master of language, his sayings have become part of everyday speech, and his plays endure, in part, because of the beauty of his verse. Shakespeare's language, however, poses special difficulties for modern actors because many of his words seem unusual or difficult to pronounce, he employs rhetorical devices throughout his works, and he carefully uses rhythm to convey sense. |
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... spoken vocabulary orally , and an even larger comprehensive vocabu- lary by encountering words they have never spoken aloud in written or verbal presentation , and which they understand by context or by conscious effort , asking what a ...
... spoken , and sometimes even when it's just written to be read , the poet can compress two syllables into one the way the people do when they speak . " I'd like to take you out to see a show , " is a perfect iambic line , because " I ...
... spoken words come only once to the listener , and fall into a single shape in the mouth of the speaker . For our purposes , sonnets are ideal for acquiring an inner ear tuned to the Iambic Code . Scan them . Observe the tricks of the ...
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Sound and Fury | 1 |
An Actors Guide to Shakespeares Verse | 21 |
Scansion | 31 |
Copyright | |
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