Sword Fighting: A Manual for Actors and Directors - Hardcover

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Keith Ducklin has spent fifteen years as a practitioner of period fighting techniques, having studied with John Waller. He taught dramatic combat at some of England's top drama schools and directed many fights for the London fringe theatre circuit until 1994, when he became involved with the Royal Armouries Museum. He has fought in full fifteenth-century plate armour before both Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Prince of Wales, demonstrated medieval European sword fighting in Japan; and has made many television appearances demonstrating historical fighting styles. He is an accredited teaching member of the British Academy of Dramatic Combat, secretary of the European Historical Combat Guild, and continues to train students of swordsmanship in Britain and America. John Waller has spent more than thirty years as an action arranger and historical consultant for stage and screen. For nineteen years he taught stage combat at drama schools including the London Academy of Music and Drama and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His work on the uses of armour and weapons brought him to the Mary Rose and its archery finds. As Head of Interpretation for the Royal Armouries at Leeds he has helped to produce many specialist film projects. He is a member of the British Academy of Dramatic Combat and the Equity Fight Director's Register, and in 1999 founded the European Historical Combat Guild. His numerous stage, film and TV credits include, amongst many others, Martin Guerre, Elizabeth R, Dr Who, and Pride and Prejudice and Arms in Action.