{"product_id":"freeing-shakespeares-voice","title":"Freeing Shakespeare's Voice","description":"\u003cp\u003eFreeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKristin Linklater\u003c\/strong\u003e (author) \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA practical approach to breaking through the barriers of restraint and incomprehension when faced with Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking many of the techniques explored in her international bestseller Freeing the Natural Voice, in this companion volume Kristin Linklater shows how to apply them to the speaking of Shakespeare's language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with exercises designed to break long-held habits and allow an emotional rather than intellectual relationship to Elizabethan language, she analyses Shakespeare's strategies for creating character, story and meaning through figures of speech, iambic pentameter, rhyme and the alternation of verse and prose. Using copious examples from the plays, Linklater offers her readers the tools to increase understanding and make Shakespeare's words their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKRISTIN LINKLATER was born in 1936 and brought up in the Orkneys. Her father was the novelist Eric Linklater, and her brothers, Magnus and Andro, are both writers. She trained in London at LAMDA before moving to the USA to work with a number of well-known theatres there, returning occasionally to work with the RSC. She has just retired as Professor of Theatre Arts at Columbia University, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎ Nick Hern Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublication date ‏ : ‎ 1 Mar. 2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrint length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781848420830\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eItem weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.6 x 1.8 x 23.1 cm \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58274709209472,"sku":"9781848420830","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3281\/8754\/files\/714oui3yyfL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781608828","url":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookshop.co.uk\/products\/freeing-shakespeares-voice","provider":"Rudolf Steiner Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}