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Freeing Shakespeare's Voice

by Kristin Linklater

A practical approach to breaking through the barriers of restraint and incomprehension when faced with Shakespeare.

Pre-eminent voice teacher, actor and director Kristin Linklater goes beyond the techniques in her classic text, Freeing the Natural Voice, to a passionate exploration of the words of Shakespeare.

Beginning with exercises designed to break long-held habits and allow the development of a visceral, Elizabethan relationship to language, she analyses Shakespeare’s strategies for creating character, story and meaning through figures of speech, iambic pentameter, rhyme and alternations of verse and prose.

Using copious examples from the plays, Linklater gives us the tools to increase our understanding and to make Shakespeare’s words our own.

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