This week, in preparation for my upcoming fall IB Literature and Performance course, I read Freeing Shakespeare's Voice by Kristin Linklater, an acting and voice theorist I studied in my course at Yale. The book builds on her work of allowing a natural voice to emerge (as opposed to a false, forced, or constrained voice) through centering ideas about character and situation in the body, projecting the voice from there, as opposed to originating in the mind/head, thus creating voice through the throat alone. The book was a good reminder of these principles and offered a number of activities that I can use while teaching Shakespeare specifically.
I also read a farce entitled The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged). I had heard of this play and seen clips before but decided to read it in order to see if it would be something we could perform here at CA. Still on the fence.
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