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Lend Me Your Ears: What Shakespeare Teaches Us about Acting

Lend Me Your Ears: What Shakespeare Teaches Us about Acting

Spector, Daniel

Paperback

Acting & AuditioningShakespeareTechnical Theater

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 9, 2027

ISBN10: 1350567108
ISBN13: 9781350567108
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: Dec 9 2027
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.11
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.08 Depth: 7.79
Language: English

Lend Me Your Ears presents an approach to actor training that centres arguing as the essential activity of performance.

Disagreement arguably is the essence of drama and Shakespeare stretches this principle to its furthest limits. Essential to Shakespeare's plays is the character's belief that the person with who you are arguing is changeable. If you, the actor, are not on board with this belief in changeability, the endeavour fails.

Part-manual and part-cultural study, the book offers intellectual and practical tools for approaching Shakespeare with power, presence and confidence. From Brutus and Cassius disagreeing over leadership in the 'tent scene' in Julius Caesar to Romeo and Juliet disagreeing over names in the 'balcony scene', robust argument exists throughout Shakespeare's oeuvre.

Indeed, the author makes the case for argumentation as the centrepiece to the actor's work on Shakespeare and, along the way, offers exercises as well as classroom and rehearsal room anecdotes as means to turn theory into practice.

By centring argument and persuasion in Shakespeare training, the book addresses the two most

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