Shakespearean Characterization: A Guide for Actors and Students

by Leslie O'Dell

Shakespeare's plays were written some four hundred years ago, and while his characters are enduring, they are also alien. In grappling with the text of his plays, the modern actor must bring Shakespeare's Renaissance characters to life for a modern audience. And while it is difficult enough for twentieth-century spectators to make sense of the plays, it is also hard for modern actors to understand the Elizabethan world that created the personalities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313311447
• ISBN13: 9780313311444
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.5"