Performance Approaches to Shakespeare

Performance Approaches to ShakespeareProviding teachers and directors with the tools necessary for uncovering and gaining an understanding of Shakespeares genius in writing for performance is the purpose for this book. Focusing on language elements such as rhythm, rhetoric, and rhyme, we uncover and fine tune our understanding of how they provide practical performance strategies. To have these tools gathered neatly in once place will serve to highlight the magnitude of Shakespeares

Providing teachers and directors with the tools necessary for uncovering and gaining an understanding of ShakespeareÕs genius in writing for performance is the purpose for this book. Focusing on language elements such as rhythm, rhetoric, and rhyme, we uncover and fine-tune our understanding of how they provide practical performance strategies.

To have these tools gathered neatly in once place will serve to highlight the magnitude of ShakespeareÕs brilliant authorship and open up Òa brave new worldÓ of possibility in the classroom or in the rehearsal space. Therefore, it is intended to be a valuable reference tool resource, supportive to an English curriculum or in preparation to produce a Shakespearean play. In it you will find the path to unlocking and understanding the overt, implicit, and hidden mechanisms Shakespeare provided to make performance choices as he may have originally intended them to be played out. Upon being trained to look for these clues, students will hopefully be inspired to a deeper awareness and appreciation of ShakespeareÕs works through the process of unleashing their own inner language detectives. Ultimately, by discovering and physically enacting the indicators discovered in the text, the result will be a more well-rounded understanding of what is read and how it should be enacted.