Puzzles The Will
While browsing the net, I came across a post on the Shakespeare Blog that had a piece that related to my recent post about translated Shakespeare editions. The author, a … Continue Reading ⇒
Acting
Where To Start With Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s language can be challenging. You and everyone else already know this fact. I’ll try not to say it again. Since it can be so challenging (whoops!) some people try … Continue Reading ⇒
Antithesis: Playing With Opposites
To be or not to be… You’ve heard it so many times that you may have forgotten to listen to the significance of these words. In these six words Shakespeare … Continue Reading ⇒
Finishing The Thought
In the recent post, “Now is NOT the Winter of Our Discontent,” I mentioned that people are misreading and misunderstanding verse because they are reading to the end of the … Continue Reading ⇒
The End?
Cutting one of Shakespeare’s plays is a common practice for obvious reasons: many of them are long. Not everyone has the patience for a three and a half hour (or … Continue Reading ⇒
American Shakespeare In The Shadow
When you watch a movie of a Shakespeare play, or a filmed stage version, or listen to an audiobook what do most of the actors have in common? Most are … Continue Reading ⇒
Is Shakespeare Meant to be Read and Not Performed?
After quite a few mentions to this topic in the last few posts on The Shakespeare Blog – the first being For Readers’ Eyes Only – I thought I should … Continue Reading ⇒
Say What?
Shakespeare is hard enough to understand with the hard grammatical constructions, and difficult vocabulary… so why is it that so many people make it harder for the listener to understand? … Continue Reading ⇒
Instant Shakespeare: Just Add Time
Studying Shakespeare is not for the impatient. To the astute scholar this may seem obvious. But to the young enthusiast and/or less Shakespearienced actor can always use a reminder. There … Continue Reading ⇒
Speaking the words, seeing the pictures
I’m not talking about illustrated editions of Shakespeare’s works. Will uses a lot of very descriptive words to help both the actor and the audience imagine a visual picture from … Continue Reading ⇒