Words into Action : Finding the Life of the Play
by Gaskill, William; Hampton, ChristopherFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-09-13
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Summary
Drawing instances from his own work in theater and from teaching at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, William Gaskill looks at action and intention, stillness and movement, sentences and rhetoric, punctuation and pauses. He pays detailed attention to staging Shakespeare's plays, including chapters on masks and on language as character.
Table of Contents
| ForewordùChristopher Hampton | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. xv |
| Trusting the Writerùthe Royal Court | p. 1 |
| Basic Lessons-Brecht and Beckett | p. 7 |
| What is an Action?-Ibsen and Chekhov | p. 15 |
| Action and InactionùHamlet | p. 21 |
| Talking to the Audience | p. 35 |
| Stage Directions | p. 41 |
| Action for the Actor | p. 55 |
| Action and Intention | p. 61 |
| Movement and Stillness-the Noh Theatre | p. 69 |
| Sentences and Rhetoric-Wilde, Webster and Winston Churchill | p. 75 |
| Phrasing and Pauses-Congreve and Beckett | p. 87 |
| Masks and ActionùBen Jonson | p. 99 |
| Language as Subject Matter | p. 107 |
| Verse and ProseùHamlet again | p. 115 |
| The Words of PuritansùShaw and Bunyan | p. 123 |
| Action and ImaginationùMacbeth | p. 127 |
| Stress, Metre and Pitch | p. 133 |
| Magic and MetaphorùThe Tempest and Henry VIII | p. 145 |
| Words and Music | p. 151 |
| State of Play | p. 157 |
| Index | p. 163 |
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