A thoroughly revised edition of the successful student text Doing Shakespeare,first published in 2005. The book's success lies in the close readings of speeches and scenes it gives students, demystifying the language of the plays and critical approaches to them. This new edition introduces a new way of approaching Shakespeare's text, through ideas of performance and the actor's role and restructures the content to make it easier to navigate, with clear signposting throughout, guiding students to the content most useful to them.
England’s famous seducer of other men’s wives lays siege to his sister-in-law in the first “battle” of Ayckbourn’s celebrated trilogy, THE NORMAN CONQUESTS. In TABLE MANNERS, the action occurs in the dining room of Mother’s house where a conventional middle-class family is attempting to have a pleasant country weekend. But they are no match for Norman, the bane of the family, who horrifies everyone by doing exactly as he likes.
Author Alan Ayckbourn Cast Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres, Carolyn Seymour, Ken Danziger, Jane Leeves, Christopher Neame
Here's a compilation of American Actors portraying British characters. Researched and made to help fellow actors, looking specifically at accent and speech.
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
Added by: miaow | Karma: 8463.35 | Other | 22 June 2016
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In this very personal journey to the edges of knowledge, Marcus du Sautoy investigates how leading experts in fields from quantum physics and cosmology, to sensory perception and neuroscience, have articulated the current lie of the land. In doing so, he travels to the very boundaries of understanding, questioning contradictory stories and consulting cutting edge data.
