Instant Shakespeare Book

	Prelude: Banging at Swords	3
	Introduction: The Absence of Presence	11
Pt. 1	Pre-Performance - Instant Shakespeare!
1	Know What the Words Really Mean - Dialogue	19
2	The Histrionic Sensibility	39
3	Whose Frog Is It Anyway?	44
4	Exercise Monologues	47
5	Know Where the Play Is Going - Structure	54
6	Know the Rhythm and Sense of the Line - Character	63
7	Know What the Play Is About - The Central Event	78
	Interlude: More Banging at Swords: Encounters at Shakespeare's Globe, 1981-1997	95
Pt. 2	Aspects of Performance
8	Transitions from Reading to Performance	107
9	Scenes for Exercises	113
10	Aspects of Performance: Breath and Impulse	120
11	Aspects of Performance: A Practical Study of the Breath	128
12	Isabella's Voice	142
13	The Ephemeral Nature of the Theatrical Event	154
14	A Philosophy of Training and Performance	161
15	Presence and the Ontological Sensibility	172
	Epilogue: Still Banging at Swords - Optional Authenticity and Shakespeare's Globe, 1997-2001	187
	Acknowledgments	197
	A Note on Sources	199
	Index	203