Muscularity of language motion and rhythm / [videorecording] : an Applause Vital production ; producer, Tom Todoroff ; director, Tom Todoroff. - [United States?] : Working Arts Library : Applause/Hal Leonard [distributor], c2004. - 1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. - Working Shakespeare ; workshop 1 . - Working Shakespeare ; workshop 1. .

"The Cicely Berry workshops."

Introduction / Jeremy Irons -- Introduction / Cicely Berry -- exercise 1. Fundamentals of metre and rhythm (Romeo and Juliet, Prologue) -- exercise 2. Movement of thought (Sonnet 129) -- exercise 3. How metre and rhythm inform character (The winter's tale, Act I, Scene ii) -- exercise 4. Where thoughts and rhythm collide (Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene v) -- exercise 5. Fullness of language within the rhythm (Coriolanus, Act II, Scene i) -- exercise 6. Word play (Sonnet 138).

Hosted by Jeremy Irons.

Cicely Berry, voice director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, leads well-known American and British actors in exercises focusing on the fundamentals of meter and rhythm in Shakespeare's verse.


DVD.

1557835403 9781557835406

073999491807

HL00314656 Applause/Hal Leonard


Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Language.


Acting.