A Guide to Scenes & Monologues from Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.A Guide to Scenes & Monologues from Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Finding good material for scene study, monologue work, and auditions is a constant challenge for actors. This volume makes that job a whole lot easier. It is a complete guide to over six hundred playable scenes and monologues from Shakespeare and his contemporaries - the most extensive offering available in one place.

This guide is designed to be easy to use. The authors have grouped the plays into traditional categories: comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances. From there, categories are broken down into further groupings (in the case of tragedies, for example: revenge tragedies, major tragedies, tragedies of classical times, and Jacobean tragedies). Short overviews are provided for each grouping; individual introductions are provided for each play. At the end of each section is a list of suggested excerpts suitable for use in auditions, monologue work, and scene study.

Both beginning and seasoned actors will find this a valuable resource for making intelligent decisions about the roles they choose.

Kurt Daw is a professional director and the author of Acting: Thought into Action (Heinemann, 1997). He was also the founding chair of the theatre department at Kennesaw State University in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. Daw has twice been selected as recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities grants, and is currently the Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at SUNY. Julia Matthews is currently an assistant professor of theatre at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. She has held National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships at the Folger Institute and the Aston Magna Academy.