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Dedication
by Herb Parker
Acting Shakespeare is Outrageous!
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: What You Most Affect
Let the Earth O’erflow
So What Do I Mean, Really, by “Outrageous”?
And What Do I Mean by “Caused by Love”?
How Does “Outrageous” Apply to Playing Shakespeare?
What You Will Find Here
Before We Begin …
Act One: Shaksper Your BFF
Who He was, What He Did, and What That Means for Us Actors
Shakespeare’s Theatre
The Elizabethan Stage
Shakespeare’s Audience
The Actor’s Task
All Women’s Roles Played by Boys
Scrolls, No Scripts!
Shaksper’s “Outrageous” Plays
The Comedies
The Histories
The Tragedies
The Romances
Summary: What This Means for Your Acting
Act Two: Holding Up Mirrors
Shakespeare as a Cold Read
Lessons Introduction
Warm-up
Lesson 1: Doing
Exercise 1: Howl
Exercise 2: Sing
Exercise 3: Don’t Think About It
Exercise 4: Hop, Kneel Crawl, and Hug!
Exercise 5: Wrestle, Kick, Speak!
Exercise 6: You Are Being Chased
Exercise 7: Every Line is a New Discovery
Exercise 8: Become the Words
Lesson 2: Verse
Exercise 9: Write It in Prose
Exercise 10: Tear the Words!
Exercise 11: Hang Your Verse
Exercise 12: Verb to Verb
Lesson 3: Sound
Exercise 13: Gobbledygook
Exercise 14: “Duh, Hell-oh, F—k!”
Lesson 4: Emotion
Exercise 15: In-Motion, Not E-Motion
Exercise 16: My Cat is Dead
Exercise 17: The Last Line Six Times
Exercise 18: Grow from the Ground Up
Exercise 19: Roll on the Floor
Exercise 20: Dueling Shakespeare
Summary
Act Three: Words, Words, Words!
Thou and You
The Poetry That Doesn’t Rhyme
The Joys of Iambic Pentameter
Shared Lines
A Feminine Ending
More Tools from Shakespeare’s Arsenal
Scansion in Action
Rhymed Verse and Couplets: A Poet and Do Know It
Sonnets
Exercise 21: Write a Sonnet
Prose: How We Talk
Dag-nabbit! Shakespeare’s Made-up Words
Summary
Act Four: Divers Schedules: A Few Items Picked Up Watching Actors Do Shakespeare
Item 1: There is No Subtext in Shakespeare
Item 2: There is Never a “Fourth Wall”
Item 3: Size is About More than Being Big and Loud
Item 4: Play What the Scene is Doing—Not Just What the Words Mean
Item 5: Antithesis is Fighting for an Answer by Comparing Opposites
Exercise 22: Play the Antithesis
Item 6: Don’t Report, Make a Discovery!
Item 7: Leave Your Hands Alone
Item 8: Speak a Soliloquy as if Your Life Depended upon It—Because It Does
Item 9: Pretty Speeches are About Blood and Guts
Item 10: Paint the Picture!
Exercise 23: A Pig in Slop—with the Words
Item 11: Shakespeare is Too Big for Film
Item 12: All Shakespearean Characters are Philosophers and Poets
Postscript
Glossary: A Listing of Common Shakespearean Terminology
Appendix: Practice Speeches for Men and Women
Recommended Reading
Index
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For my brother
Harold
And in memory of
Our Sister,
Pat
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