Ketjack

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:58:49 -0500

"all the while gesturing with one's elbows planted firmly in one's ribs, thereby forcing all gestures to be generated at the wrist." You wanted him to wave his arms around? Maybe he should have hugged that random audience member as he was shouting "WHORE!" into her ear. At the very least he should have held his head in his hands and heiled Hitler and clasped his crotch during that orgasmic climax you mention.

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Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:53:20 -0500

"The rhymes only work if you've got a British accent, so learn the accent well or give up on them completely. You can't have it both ways." Shakespeare didn't have a British accent. Duh. (More preicsely: Shakespeare's likely accent and pronunciation bear less resemblance to present-day British RP as it does to southern 'English'. And I'm not even taking into account the pronunciation of 'gh' and 'ea' and 'kn'.) (No one knows exactly how Shakespeare was done, but it was most likely highly declamatory and "artifical" (formal) and had next to nothing to do with "realistic" acting. I'm sure you know this. My opinion is that virtually no one does Shakespeare well anymore, because almost no one gets the metrical rhythms right.) I'd highly recommend the CD What Then Is Love? if you want to hear good reconstructed Elizabethan accents and pronunciations. Beautiful songs: Of moss and layves unboGHt....

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