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Shakespearean language
a guide for actors and students
By O'Dell, Leslie
- ISBN
- 978-0-31331-145-1
- Publisher
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 15, 2002
The goal of this trio of books by O'Dell (theater and English, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.), the text consultant for the Stratford Festival, is to help actors and students gain access to Shakespeare's plays. Each combines background information with practical techniques and exercises to be used for interpreting Shakespeare in performance. Shakespearean Language covers Shakespeare's use of rhetoric and iambic pentameter patterns to project emotion and to develop character and plot. Instructions on 16th-century scansion, grammar, and rhetorical devices are in...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
