Shakespearean characterization : a guide for actors and students / by O'Dell, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- AN ACTOR'S GUIDE TO SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CITATIONS -- QUOTATIONS -- CAPITALIZATIONS -- FIRST FOLIO ERRORS -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SELF -- LONG SPELLINGS -- HE OR SHE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Bringing Shakespeare to the Modern Stage -- AN ACTOR'S INSIGHTS -- THE DEAD HAND OF TRADITION -- LAZINESS -- ANTI-METHOD -- ROMANCE -- UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOU ARE SAYING -- BRIDGES -- 2 The Conditions of Rehearsal and Performance -- REHEARSING IN SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE -- Training Actors in Shakespeare's Company -- Rehearsing with Sides -- 3 Theatrical Conventions -- ENACTING DEATH -- Inopportune Laughter -- SOLILOQUY AND ASIDE -- RELATIONSHIPS -- ENTRANCES AND EXITS -- SHIFTING TIME AND PLACE -- DOUBLING -- 4 The Theatrical Traditions of Personification -- PLAYING PERSONIFICATIONS -- PERSONIFICATION IN IMAGERY -- Emblems -- PSYCHOMACHIA REVISITED -- And One Man in His Time Plays Many Parts -- PERSONIFICATIONS AND ARCHETYPES -- Playing an Archetypal Relationship -- AN ACTOR WRITING FOR OTHER ACTORS -- 5 A Character's Language -- EDUCATION -- EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE -- RHYTHMIC INDICATORS -- COMPLEXITY OF THOUGHT, COMPLEXITY OF CHARACTER -- EMOTION AND RHETORIC -- PROSE VERSUS POETRY -- WIT -- 6 Moving Metaphors -- A CHARACTER'S LIFE STORY IN A WORD OR TWO -- SHAKESPEARE'S LANGUAGE OF SENSE -- Visualizing Images -- Envisioning Metaphor -- Imagery As Framework -- 7 The Power of the Word -- THE MUSIC OF THE VOICE -- The Speaking Voice -- PURPLE PASSAGES -- IRONIC DISTANCE -- ANTIPOETRY -- 8 The Fallacy of Universality -- SOCIAL HISTORY -- Hypertext -- HABITS OF MIND -- Reflections -- Elizabeth -- Prefigures -- The Famous of Athens and Rome -- Biblical Allusions -- Exploration: The Book of the Revelation -- Antithesis -- CLASS -- Honorifics -- A BAWDY PLANET -- Dirty Bits -- SILENCE -- HUMORS.…”
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Shakespeare and the idea of Apocrypha : negotiating the boundaries of the dramatic canon / by Kirwan, Peter

The tempest / by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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Shakespeare's knowledge of astronomy and the birth of modern cosmology / by Usher, Peter D.

The one King Lear / by Vickers, Brian

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Determining the Shakespeare canon : Arden of Faversham and A Lover's Complaint / by Jackson, MacDonald P.

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Shakespeare and the idea of Apocrypha : negotiating the boundaries of the dramatic canon / by Kirwan, Peter

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A Reader in the language of Shakespearean drama : essays /

Table of Contents: “…SHAKESPEARE'S USE OF ETH AND ES ENDINGS OF VERBS IN THE FIRST FOLIOSHAKESPEARE'S USE OF S ENDINGS OF THE VERBS TO DO AND TO HAVE IN THE FIRST FOLIO; V. STUDIES IN RHETORIC AND METRE; SHAKESPEARE'S USE OF RHETORIC; HENDIADYS AND HAMLET; THE IAMBIC PENTAMETER REViSiTED; VI. …”
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Names as metaphors in Shakespeare's comedies / by Smith, Grant W., 1937-

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Othello : authoritative text, textual sources and cultural contexts, criticism / by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Shakespeare's King Lear : an edition with new insights / by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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The actor's survival handbook / by Tucker, Patrick, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Medieval acting -- Melodrama acting -- Method acting -- Mistakes -- Modern contemporary acting -- Money is probably the answer -- Movement and gestures -- Multicamera versus single camera -- Never say no -- No training -- Notes -- Open auditions -- Opposites -- Outside-in-versus inside-out -- Over the top -- Pauses -- Performing -- Photographs -- Problems -- Producers -- Projection -- Properties (Props) -- Pulling focus -- Punctuality -- Qualifications -- Radio acting -- Readings -- Rehearsals (Long, short, or none) -- Rehearsing -- Rejection -- Restoration acting -- Resumes -- Role-play -- Screen acting -- Screen cheating -- Screen reactions -- Screen vocal levels -- Sex and violence -- Shakespeare acting -- Shakespeare : first folio -- Shakespeare : prose or poetry -- Shakespeare : simple or complicated -- Shakespeare : verse -- Shakespeare : what you call people -- Shakespeare : wordplay -- Shooting and acting -- Stars -- Starting off -- Step-by-step -- Style -- Teaching acting -- Technical and dress rehearsals -- Technique -- Ten-second rule -- Text -- The team -- Thinking -- Training -- Truth -- Typecasting -- University courses -- Versatility -- Voice -- Whatever works -- You (Your other life) -- Biographies.…”
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Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes :

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As you like it / by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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Measure for measure /

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The Routledge handbook of Shakespeare and global appropriation /

Table of Contents: “…appropriating Richard III's disability in recent graphic novels and comics / Marina Gerzic -- Some tweeting Cleopatra : crossing borders on and off the Shakespearean stage / Louise Geddes -- The sandman as Shakespearean appropriation / Miriam Jacobson -- Shakespeare's scattered leaves : mutilated books, unbound pages, and the circulation of the First Folio / Christy Desmet…”
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Autobiography :

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Inclusive Shakespeares : identity, pedagogy, performance /

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Leaves from a verse miscellany of court poetry :

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Jests and poems, compiled c.1595, with later additions

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