From Publishers Weekly
Although Shakespeare is the most famous-and lauded-writer in English, most adult readers, theatergoers and students would be hard pressed to admit they fully understand the complexity or complete meaning of his language. Rodenburg, the director of voice at London’s National Theater, has written an excellent training guide for actors tackling the Bard, methodically escorting the amateur or professional thespian from understanding individual words to reading lin…
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I’m not sure why I purchased this book in the first place–something told me I wouldn’t understand Shakespeare simply by reading it unless I really learned to speak it.
It’s blown my world wide open. This is an astonishing book–which even if it apparently looks like a workbook for actors, is more importantly a guide for anyone who’d like to know what planet she’s landed on. Because you can’t know much about planet earth if you don’t know much about Shakespeare–and the secrets Shakespeare is willing to share with you aren’t available unless you can hear his lines, and you can’t hear them if you can’t speak them.
Understand, I’ve been reading Shakespeare for 40 years. this book has doubled the pleasure and depth of the experience for me.
Oddly enough, words seem completely inadequate to describe Patsy and her teaching. She is an absolute hero and beyond extraordinary…there are few who understand the human being and their voice better than she. If you don’t have the opportunity to be in her presence, and learn from her in person (an undeniably mind-blowing experience), then her books are definitely next best thing. Her writing is always incredibly concise and powerful, but this one is particularly full of wonderful examples and imagery. Her structure and method is so clearly laid out, and her passion is always present in her writing (no matter the book), it is almost as if you are in the room with her. This book would be an invaluable addition to any library, as would any or all of her other works. Patsy Rodenburg is quite simply one-of-a-kind amazing!