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The Need for Words Voice and the Text

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

10.08.2023

Verlag

Bloomsbury

Seitenzahl

248

Maße (L/B/H)

21,2/13,6/1,9 cm

Gewicht

322 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-350-29011-2

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

10.08.2023

Verlag

Bloomsbury

Seitenzahl

248

Maße (L/B/H)

21,2/13,6/1,9 cm

Gewicht

322 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-350-29011-2

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
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DE

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  • Produktbild: The Need for Words
  • About the Author
    Acknowledgements
    Foreword Antony Sher

    Introduction 1

    Let's Consider Shakespeare!

    PART ONE The Need for Words

    1 Connecting with Words

    The Speaking Act
    Distrust of Words
    Returning to Words
    In the Beginning was the Word
    The Power of Words
    The Importance of Oracy
    The Deeper Need for Words
    Lost Voices
    Not Empty Rhetoric
    Native Eloquence
    Words are Physical

    2 The Breakdown of Words

    Family
    Education
    Conservation
    The Written Word vs the Spoken Word
    Speaking Your Way into Writing and Reading
    Discussion and Debate
    Training Young Actors
    Guarding Against Quick Fixes

    3 Cultural and Physical Barriers

    The Age of Cacophony and Image Saturation
    Embodiment
    Role Models
    Speaking in Public
    The Inability to Listen
    Tensions and Physical Habits as Barriers
    Poetry
    Profanity
    Language of Gestures
    Wit and Wordplay
    Irony and Satire
    The Tyranny of the Intellectual
    Codes and Code Breaking
    The Media and Tabloid Thinking
    Solipsism
    Advertising
    Power Talk or Don't Talk Back
    The Passion-Mongers
    Sentimentality
    Fillers and Clichés
    Sexual Politics
    Political Correctness
    RP or Not RP
    RP is a Choice
    Overcoming the Speech Barrier

    PART TWO Voice and the Text

    4 Finding a Voice

    Releasing Physical Barriers
    Getting 'In Voice'
    Focal Points
    Simple Voice Workout

    5 Voice into Words and Text

    Connecting to a Text
    Experimenting with Language
    Sounding Real
    Language Exercises

    6 Working Further with Texts

    The Marriage between Voice and Text
    Clues from the Great Writers
    The Poetry Barrier
    The Structure of Verse
    The Way Words Work
    Starting with Shakespeare
    Speaking Shakespeare's Text
    Sonnets
    Shakespeare's Speeches
    Shakespearean Prose
    The Verse Duet
    Medieval Verse
    Christopher Marlowe
    John Milton
    Jacobean Drama
    A Modern Jacobean Equivalent
    The Age of Pope and the Age of Reason
    Restoration Dialogue
    Oscar Wilde
    George Bernard Shaw
    Styles in Speaking Texts
    Greek Tragedy
    Edward Bond
    William Blake
    Samuel Beckett
    Harold Pinter
    Working with Song Lyrics
    Bad Texts
    Prologues and Epilogues

    Copyright and Permissions Acknowledgements
    Index