| Description |
xiii, 186 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Overview: a Brief History of Restoration England -- The Court and World of Charles II -- Plays and Playwrights -- The Theatre, Its Actors, and Audiences -- Some Basic Acting Concerns -- Character Types -- Achieving Objectives Through Externals -- Flaunting As an Objective -- Masking Emotion -- Interaction As a Game to Be Won -- Scenes for Practice -- Scene Analysis -- The Language in Restoration Comedies: Background, Types, Styles, and Modes of Speech -- Purveyors and Annihilators of Wit -- Conventions of Public and Private Discourse -- Devices and Components of Wit -- Scene Analysis -- Using the Voice -- Understanding Operative Words -- Working Imagistically: Utilizing Laban's Components of Movement for the Voice -- The Vocal Variables of Pitch, Rhythm, and Tempo -- Putting It All Together: Experimenting with Pitch, Tempo, and Rhythm -- Playing the Sounds -- Scene Analysis -- The Physical Lives of Characters: Movement, Fashion, and the Details of Deportment -- The Mask of Fashion -- A Consideration of Rehearsal Costumes -- Fashion and Movement: A Brief Consideration of Space -- General Physical and Movement Concerns -- A Laban Approach -- Postures Delineated -- Integrating Movement with Text and Voice -- Bows and Curtsies -- Gestures With and Without Props -- Exercises for Integrating Gesture with Movement and Text -- Scene Analysis -- Acting, Text, Voice, and Movement: A Synthesis -- Character Analysis/Worksheet -- A Vocal Warm-Up -- A Partial List of Writings on the Art of Deportment in the Restoration Era. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186). |
| Subject |
Acting.
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English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700 -- History and criticism.
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English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0325003750 (acid-free paper) |
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9780325003757 (acid-free paper) |
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