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This classroom and theater-tested program teaches amateur and professional actors alike how to understand and effectively communicate the poetry of Shakespeare. Organized around passages from Romeo and Juliet, a simple, three-step process is presented. In the first step, readers learn the value of looking up words in the Oxford English Dictionary and paraphrase passages to ensure that they truly understand the words they are speaking. The second step, presents essential tools for speaking Shakespeare effectively, including iambic pentameter and correct rhythm, and explains how to syncopate for meaning. The final step, honors the poetry of Shakespeare through a discussion of the use of punctuation, repeated sounds, and connecting key words and phrases. Exercises bring all the elements of these steps together.
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Mikel Rhodent
reviewed How to Speak Shakespeare on September 22, 2009
How to Speak Shakespeare
A great counterweight to George Steiner's The Death of Tragedy, published shortly beforehand (in the 1960s).
Steiner: Tragedy issues from the bleak worldview of pagans. Optimism (Christianity, Enlightenment) was fatal to it; belief in progress makes it impossible.
Kaufmann: Aeschylus was optimistic and committed most of the 'fatal acts and impossibilities'. Greek tragedies were quite happy not to end in catastrophe. Tragedy merely meant 'immense suffering' on stage, such that an end of grace cannot erase the anguish from our minds. Tragedy is entirely possible today. It is the most humane of arts, as it works on sympathy, often for unlikely persons. It believes in courage and nobility, as comedy did not. Despair is the only killer of tragedy.
Both value poets above the commentators on poets; both are deeply versed in the poems, and love them intimately; both write to be understood and enjoyed; both are traumatised by the first half of the twentieth century, both remain humanists. Read both.
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