Delicious dissembling : a compleat guide to performing restoration comedy /
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Portsmouth, NH :
Heinemann,
©2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Overview: a Brief History of Restoration England
- The Court and World of Charles II
- Plays and Playwrights
- The Theatre, Its Actors, and Audiences
- Some Basic Acting Concerns
- Character Types
- Achieving Objectives Through Externals
- Flaunting As an Objective
- Masking Emotion
- Interaction As a Game to Be Won
- Scenes for Practice
- Scene Analysis
- The Language in Restoration Comedies: Background, Types, Styles, and Modes of Speech
- Purveyors and Annihilators of Wit
- Conventions of Public and Private Discourse
- Devices and Components of Wit
- Scene Analysis
- Using the Voice
- Understanding Operative Words
- Working Imagistically: Utilizing Laban's Components of Movement for the Voice
- The Vocal Variables of Pitch, Rhythm, and Tempo
- Putting It All Together: Experimenting with Pitch, Tempo, and Rhythm
- Playing the Sounds
- Scene Analysis
- The Physical Lives of Characters: Movement, Fashion, and the Details of Deportment
- The Mask of Fashion
- A Consideration of Rehearsal Costumes
- Fashion and Movement: A Brief Consideration of Space
- General Physical and Movement Concerns
- A Laban Approach
- Postures Delineated
- Integrating Movement with Text and Voice
- Bows and Curtsies
- Gestures With and Without Props
- Exercises for Integrating Gesture with Movement and Text
- Scene Analysis
- Acting, Text, Voice, and Movement: A Synthesis
- Character Analysis/Worksheet
- A Vocal Warm-Up
- A Partial List of Writings on the Art of Deportment in the Restoration Era.