Freeing Shakespear's Voice By Kristin Linklater

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Shakespeare is hard to understand. We all know his play and his popluar plays such as Romeo and Juilet, Much ado about Nothing, and The Tempest. They range from comedy to tardgies. But how do we understand the langue of the play? Even though it is English, it more older verison of the language. He does more with figure of speeches and emphasize many vowels and constanctics. Many books are there for the language of Shakespeare because us people in the 21st century. One book in particular, is helping me understand his language. That is Freeing Shakespear’s Voice by Kristin Linklater. This book has technquie that help understand the play in genral. While using the play, The Tempst, I had a better understanding of Shakespeare words. Shakespeare …show more content…

A meathphor is comparing two different things and not using like to compare it. We use it all the time in our modern langue. A methaphor that is used in the Tempst is My library Was dukedom large enough. This meathphor is comparing two diffent things and adding them together. Shakespeare had a pan for us on how to use the written word and play them out. Acording to Linkar, we are suppose to play out the meathophor by using our hands and body to help fully understand it. While directing the kids at Greencastle, I would be able to work with this by playing around with the meathphor. At first, I will ask to think about a meathphor they would use in modern enlgish and then play around with it. It will be easier for them to slowly understand it and be able to play around with it, while they are rehersing …show more content…

The AAA sound is something that we use in our everyday. But we want to emphasize it when we are using it. An example of a line in The Tempst, “A falsehood.” This pharse has the aaa sound in it. Linklater put exericises in the book for the actor to use this wording apportibility. This sound need an expensive voice to be used and to be heard. While the kids are working on tough lines that have many vowels, I need to give them some of the advice that Linklater has in her book. The first one is that they need to open up their arms, and picture that their chest is opening up. This way, they can better enchance themselves while using the language that it is out hand for them. The audience would have a better understanding of what the student is saying and could understand them that they are emphasizing the

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