Acting Shakespeare is Outrageous!

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acting/actors: boy players 23–4; cold reading 60–2, 93, 96–7, 110; cue acting 24–5; in Elizabethan time 21–3; pausing 119–20, 168; picking up one’s cues 120; picking up one’s cues and shared lines 125; thrust stage acting 16, 31–2, 158, 159; “voice” actors 178; warm-up 63–6; women’s roles played by boys/men 15–16, 23–4; see also doing Shakespeare; film work; lessons; practice speeches (men); practice speeches (women); Shakespeare’s poetry

African American Baptist church tradition 101–2

agape 7

alexandrines 129

All’s Well That Ends Well: Boccaccio’s The Decameron as source 57; practice speech (women) 198; “problem play” 34, 40; synopsis 40

amphibrachs 121

anapests 121, 128

antithesis: concept 94, 164–5; “play the antithesis” exercise ...