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by John Barton (Author), LuAnn Walther (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Anchor Books (Aug 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0385720858
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385720854
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.4 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars definitive toolkit, 16 Jul 2006
This review is from: Playing Shakespeare (Performance Books) (Paperback)
i am a classicaly trained theatre director. having undergone a good classical training at a school of excellence (at MA level) an awful lot of what we were taught is reflected in this book. mind you - our course leader worked with barton at the RSC. there is a world of difference between reading/studying and playing shakespeare in professional practice - and to ignore verse form and to suppose there is no specific craft to acting it - well do that at your own peril: to do so is to underestimate shkspr. this is, in other words - a book for the professional practitioner. the only drawback with this book is that as a practitioner you'll probably see the sense of it AFTER you've put the text in the air in the way the barton suggests - and having someone outside of the rehearsal or exercise to help you is pretty important. for any actor or director who wants to deepen their understanding of how this stuff works - this is a much less prescriptive and 'thou shalt' book that Sir Peter Halls and gives you a good toolkit for performing shakespeare - if you can, however, watch the videos on which the book is based. for those of you who wish to study shakespeare critically - you may not see the value in this text. however, in this day and age critics are increasingly writing about practice and are beginning to see the value in it - (althoug a lot of their books, while based