Training for the Stage: The Technique of Acting

accent achieve acting action actor arms atmosphere audience balance breath Brutus change of thought character characterization climax comedy consonant contrast convey Coriolanus Corn is Green curve demi-plié dialogue diction DONALD WOLFIT dramatic effect emotion emphasis EXERCISES facial expression falling inflexion flexible FLORENCE foot Gentlemen of Verona gesture give Hamlet iamb Ibid imagery imagination important intensity Julius Caesar King Henry King Richard King Richard III knees lines Madge Kendal means mental Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream MISS JANUS modulation mood movement muscles nature pace passage pause personality phrase pitch PITMAN play plot quantity rehearsal rhythm rhythmical Richard of Bordeaux rising inflexion Romeo and Juliet scene sense sentence Shakespeare soliloquy sound speak speech spontaneity stage stress Study style subtle syllable take your cues technique tempo theatre thou thought and feeling tion tone colour Twelfth Night vary voice volume walk whilst words