'You' and 'Thou' in Shakespeare: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers by Freedman, Penelope

'You' and 'Thou' in Shakespeare: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350118676)

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'You' and 'Thou' in Shakespeare: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers by Freedman, Penelope

'You' and 'Thou' in Shakespeare: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers

$21.95
'You' and 'Thou' in Shakespeare: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers by Freedman, Penelope

'You' and 'Thou' in Shakespeare: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers

$21.95
Format: Paperback
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Romeo and Juliet always use 'thou' to each other, but they are the only pair of lovers in Shakespeare to do this. Why? All the women in Richard III address Richard as 'thou', but no man ever does. Why? When characters address the dead, they use 'thou' - except for Hamlet, who addresses Yorick as 'you'. Why? Shakespeare's contemporaries would have known the answers to these questions because they understood what 'thou' signified, but modern actors and audiences are in the dark. Through performance-oriented analysis of extracts from the plays, this book explores the language of 'trulls' and termagants, true loves and unwelcome wooers, male impersonators, smothering mothers, warring spouses and fighting men, as well as investigating l se-majest , Freudian slips, crisis moments and rhetorical flourishes. Drawing on work with RSC actors, as well as the author's experience of playing a range of Shakespearean roles, the book equips the reader with a new tool for tracking emotions, weighing power relations and appreciating dazzling complexity.

Author: Penelope Freedman
ISBN-10: 1350118672
ISBN-13: 9781350118676
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Language: English
Published: 04/22/2021
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
By Penelope Freedman
By Penelope Freedman
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Penelope Freedman is a teacher and academic with a background both in linguistics and in theatre. With a first degree in Classics from Oxford, an MA in Linguistics from the University of Kent and a PhD on Shakespeare from Birmingham University, she has been a lecturer at Kent and Warwick universities, as well as at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. She has also directed several Shakespeare productions and played eight of Shakespeare's heroines.

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