2. BOOKS FOR FURTHER STUDY
This
list includes all works consulted for this book, some of which are mentioned in
the text, and some other books useful to the actor.
Bartlett,
John, ed. A Complete Concordance to Shakespeare. 18th ed. New York: St.
Martin's,1984.
Barton,
John. Playing Shakespeare. London: Methuen, 1984.
Berry,
Cicely. The Actor and the Text. New York: Scribner's, 1988.
Berry,
Ralph. The Shakespearean Metaphor: Studies in Language and Form. Totowa,
N .J.:
Rawmon
and Littlefield, 1978.
Bevington,
David, ed. The Complete Works of Shakespeare. 4th ed. New York:
HarperCollins, 1992.
Bloom,
Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead
Books, 1998.
Boorstin,
Daniel J. TheAmericans: The National Experience. New York: Random House,
1965.
Booth,
Stephen. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
Bosco,
Philip. Philip Bosco speaks out. In Theatre. 7 August 1998, 23-25.
Brook,
Peter. The Empty Space. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
--.Evoking
Shakespeare. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1998.
Brown,
John Russell. Discovering Shakespeare. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1981.
--.Free
Shakespeare. London: Heinemann, 1974.
--.Shakespeare’s
Dramatic Style. London: Heinemann, 1970.
--.Shakespeare’s
Plays in Performance. Revised Edition. New York:
Applause, 1993.
--.William
Shakespeare: Writing for Performance. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Bulman,
James C. Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance. London and New York:
Routledge, 1966.
Burson,
Linda. Play with Shakespeare. Charlottesville, Va.: New Plays Books,
1992. Cercignani, Fausto. Shakespeare’s Words and Elizabethan Pronunciation.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Davis,
James E. and Ronald Salomone, eds. Teaching Shakespeare Today. Urbana,
Il.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993.
--.Teaching
Shakespeare into the Twenty-First Century. Urbana, Il.: National
Council of Teachers of English, 1997.
Doyle,
John and Roy Lischner. Shakespeare for Dummies. Foster City, CA: IDG
Books, 1999.
Epstein,
Morrie. The Friendly Shakespeare. New York: Viking Penguin, 1993.
Freeman,
Neil, ed. Applause First Folio Editions. New York: Applause, 1998 and
on. (Shakespeare's thirty-six plays in modern print, available individually).
--.The
Applause First Folio of Shakespeare: in Modern Type. New York: Applause,
2000.
--.Folio
Scripts: Shakespeare’s First Texts. 2nd ed. Vancouver: Self-published,
distributed by Applause Books, 1999.
Gielgud,
John. Backward Glances. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989.
--and
John Miller. Acting Shakespeare. New York: Scribner's, 1991.
Granville-Barker,
Harley. Prefaces to Shakespeare. 4 vols. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1946.
--and
G. B. Harrison. A Companion to Shakespeare Studies. New York: Doubleday,
1960.
Guthrie,
Tyrone. A Lift in the Theatre. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959.
--.In
Various Directions; A View of the Theatre. New York: Macmillan,
1965.
Halio,
Jay L. Understanding Shakespeare’s Plays in Performance. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1988.
Hall,
Peter. Peter Hal1’s Diaries. Ed. John Goodwin. London: Hamish Hamilton,
1983.
Harbage,
Alfred, ed. William Shakespeare; The Complete Works. Revised Edition. The
Complete Pelican Shakespeare. New York: Viking Penguin, 1977.
Hinman,
Charlton, ed. The First Folio of Shakespeare; The Norton Facsimile. New
York: W.W. Norton, 1968.
Joseph,
Miriam. Shakespeare’s Use of the Arts of Language. New York: Hafner,
1947.
Kerrigan,
John, ed. William Shakespeare; The Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint. New
York: Viking Penguin, 1986.
Mahood,
M. M. Playing Bit Parts in Shakespeare. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Mamet,
David. True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor. New York:
Pantheon,1997.
Martin,
Jacqueline. Voice in Modern Theatre. New York: Routledge, 1991.
McCrum,
Robert, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil. The Story of English. New
York: Viking, 1986.
Michaels,
Wendy. Playbuilding Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1996
Miller,
Arthur. A View From the Bridge. In Drama; An Introductory Anthology, Otto
Reinert ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.
Moore,
Sonia. The Stanislavsky System. Revised Edition. New York: Viking, 1965.
O'Brian,
Peggy, ed. Shakespeare Set Free. Series of three books. New York:
Washington Square Press, 1993.
Olivier,
Laurence. On Acting. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
Onions,
C. T. A. Shakespeare Glossary. 3rd ed. Revised. Robert D. Eagleson.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.
Parsons,
Keith and Pamela Mason, eds. Shakespeare in Performance. London:
Salamander Books, 1995.
Proudfit,
Scott. Genius in exile. Back Stage West, 10 June 1999,6.
Reynolds,
Peter. Teaching Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Robinson,
Randal. Unlocking Shakespeare’s Language. Urbana, I1.: National Council
of Teachers of English, 1988.
Rowse,
A. L. The England of Elizabeth. New York: Macmillan, 1950.
Rozett,
Martha Tuck. Talking Back to Shakespeare. Urbana, I1.: National Council
of Teachers of English, 1994.
Rygiel,
Mary Ann. Shakespeare Among School Children. Urbana, I1.: National
Council of Teachers of English, 1992.
Schmidt,
Alexander. The Shakespeare Lexicon; A Complete Dictionary of the English
Words, Phrases and Construction in the Works of the Poet. 3rd ed. Revised
by Gregor Sarrazin. 2 vols. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1902.
Shakespeare,
William. "Writer Filmography." Online. Available from Internet Movie
Database, 1999, at http.://us.imdb.com/name?Shakespeare,+william.
Shaw,
George Bernard. Man and Superman. In Seven Plays by Bernard Shaw. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1951.
Spain,
Delbert. Shakespeare Sounded Soundly: The Verse Structure and the Language. Santa
Barbara, CA: Capra, 1988.
Spurgeon,
Caroline F. E. Shakespeare’s Imagery and What It Tells Us. Cambridge:
Cam- bridge University Press, 1935.
Tillyard,
E. M. W. The Elizabethan World Picture. New York: Vintage, 1941.
Toropov, Brandon. Shakespeare for Beginners. New York: Writers and
Readers, 1997.
Vendler,
Helen Hennessy. The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1997.
Whitney,
Craig R. Hoffman as Shylock: London critics cool. New York Times, 3 June
1989,A13.
3. BOOKS ON ACTING SHAKESPEARE
The
bibliography of books about the skills required to act Shakespeare is slim.
Many of the useful books are actually voice studies. But each book listed here
is helpful to the actor in one way or another.
Barton,
John. Playing Shakespeare. London: Methuen, 1984.
Berry,
Cicely. The Actor and the Text. New York: Scribner's, 1988.
--.Voice
and the Actor. New York: Macmillan, 1973.
Berry,
Ralph. On Directing Shakespeare: Interviews with Contemporary Directors. London:
Hamish Hamilton, 1989.
Bevington,
David. Acting is Eloquence: Shakespeares Language of Gesture. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1984.
Brine,
Adrian and Michael York. A Shakespearean Actor Prepares. North
Stratford, NH: Smith and Kraus, 1999.
Brockbank,
Philip, ed. Players of Shakespeare: Essays in Shakespearean Performance by
Twelve Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1985.
Brown,
John Russell, ed. Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two. New York: Applause
Books, 1992.
Brubaker,
Edward S. Shakespeare Aloud: A Guide to His verse on Stage. Lancaster,
Pa.: Author, 1976.
Cohen,
Robert. Acting in Shakespeare. Mountain View, Ca.: Mayfield, 1991.
Daw,
Kurt. Acting Shakespeare & His Contemporaries. Portsmouth, N
.H.: Heinemann, 1998.
Guthrie,
Tyrone. Tyrone Guthrie on Acting. New York: Viking, 1971.
Jackson,
Russell and Robert Smallwood, eds. Players of Shakespeare 2: Further
Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare
Company. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Joseph,
Bertram. Acting Shakespeare. Revised Edition. New York: Theatre Arts
Books, 1969.
--.A
Shakespeare Workbook. 2 vols. New York: Theatre Arts
Books, 1980.
Linklater,
Kristin. Freeing Shakespeare’s Voice. New York: Theatre Communications
Group,1992.
Rodenburg,
Patsy. The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer. London: Methuen, 1998.
--.The
Need for Words. New York: Roudedge, 1993.
--.The
Right to Speak. New York: Roudedge, 1992.
Sher,
Antony. Year of the King. New York: Limelight Editions, 1986.
Spain,
Delbert. Shakespeare Sounded Soundly: The Verse Structure and the Language. Santa
Barbara, Ca.: Capra Press, 1988.
Suzman,
Janet. Acting with Shakespeare; Three Comedies. New York: Applause
Books, 1996.
Woods,
Leigh. On Playing Shakespeare; Advice and Commentary from Actors and
Actresses of the Past. New York: Greenwood, 1991.
4. BOOKS ON ACTING REALISM
Most
of the classic books on acting, and the better new ones, are not concerned with
playing verse. Shakespeare is rarely mentioned. Yet, these are excellent books
that deal with acting primarily as it relates to modern text for stage or film.
Adler,
Stella. The Technique of Acting. New York: Bantam, 1988.
Boleslavsky,
Richard. Acting: The First Six Lessons. New York: Theatre Arts Books,
1933.
Chekhov,
Michael. On the Technique of Acting. New York: HarperCollins, 1991; re-
print and revised, To the Actor. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1985.
Bruder,
Melissa, et al. A Practical Handbook for the Actor. New York: Vintage,
1986.
Hagen,
Uta. A Challenge for the Actor. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991.
--and
Haskel Frankel. Respect for Acting. New York: Macmillan, 1973.
Mamet,
David. True or False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor. New York:
Pantheon, 1997.
Meisner,
Sanford and Dennis Longwell. Sanford Meisner on Acting. New York: Random
House, 1987.
Moore,
Sonya. The Stanislavski System. Revised Edition. New York: Viking, 1965.
--.Training
an Actor. New York: Viking, 1968.
Shapiro,
Mel. An Actor Performs. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1997.
Silverberg,
Larry. The Sanford Meisner Approach. 2 vols. Lynn, NH: Smith and Kraus,
1994 (Vo11), 1997 (Vo12). Two more volumes are in preparation.
Stanislavski,
Constantine. An Actor Prepares. Trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. New
York: Routledge, 1936.
--.My
Life in Art. Trans. J. J. Robbins. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1924,
reprint, New York: Little, Brown, 1948.
--.Building
a Character. Trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. New York: Theatre Arts
Books. 1949.