Preface Sound and Fury An Actor's Guide to Shakespeare's Verse Scansion The Sonnets Acquiring the Inner Ear The Flow of Thought and Feeling Putting it on its Feet Messages in Code Rhetoric Acquiring an Elizabethan Rhetorical Facility Structuring Argument Tangled Webs Index
LESLIE O'DELL is Associate Professor of Theatre and English at Wilfrid Laurier University and Text Consultant for the Stratford Festival in Ontario.
?Recommended for public and academic libraries serving people
interested in better understanding Shakespeare's plays as audience
member, student, or player.?-Library Journal
?This book makes a nice break from traditional encyclopedic,
bibliographic, or dictionary volumes targeted to Shakespeare.
Shakespearean Language includes these features of traditional
Shakespearean reference tools, but it specifically targets the
impact of the spoken word and how it can be utilized on the stage.
O'Dell's emphasis in getting modern actors to understand how
Shakespeare's actors would have approached the work is successfully
demonstrated throughout the volume by utilizing examples from a
variety of Shakespeare's works.?-Reference & User Services
Quarterly
"Recommended for public and academic libraries serving people
interested in better understanding Shakespeare's plays as audience
member, student, or player."-Library Journal
"This book makes a nice break from traditional encyclopedic,
bibliographic, or dictionary volumes targeted to Shakespeare.
Shakespearean Language includes these features of traditional
Shakespearean reference tools, but it specifically targets the
impact of the spoken word and how it can be utilized on the stage.
O'Dell's emphasis in getting modern actors to understand how
Shakespeare's actors would have approached the work is successfully
demonstrated throughout the volume by utilizing examples from a
variety of Shakespeare's works."-Reference & User Services
Quarterly
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