The Classical Monologue: Men by Michael Earley

The Classical Monologue: Men by Michael Earley

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This volume aimed at men provides a collection of monologues that can be used by actors in auditions and contests. There are over 50 pieces from the drama of the Greeks and Romans, Elizabethans and Jacobeans, the Restoration and playwrights of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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The Classical Monologue: Men by Michael Earley

Fifty essential classical monologues by the great world dramatists These great dramatic monologues - from all periods and styles, all varied in tone and genre - make an indispensable actor's companion for auditioning, rehearsing and performing. Contains extracts from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Ford, Behn, Congreve, Wycherley, Sheridan, Vanburgh, Racine, Moliere, Calderon, Buchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Checkhov, Synge, Wilde and Shaw plus many more. Each monologue is accompanied by editors' commentaries and textual notes that point the beginner and the experienced actor towards the riches and challenges that lie waiting to be released on stage.
Professor Michael Earley is former Chief Producer of Plays for BBC Radio Drama in London. He was Chairman of the Theatre Studies Program at Yale University and taught acting, dramatic literature and playwriting there and at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, The Juilliard School's Acting Program, Smith College and various other schools and universities in America and Britain. He is currently the principal of the Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. Philippa Keil is a writer, editor and translator who trained at the Yale School of Drama. She graduated from Sussex University where she acted, directed and produced plays for the Frontdoor Theatre, and then worked professionally in London at Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre.
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ISBN 13 9780413664907
ISBN 10 0413664902
Title The Classical Monologue: Men
Author Michael Earley
Series Audition Speeches
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 1992-03-09
Number of pages 160
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