I had aleady performed the shakespere piece Romeo and Juliet so I was familiar with the old English text. This gave me an advantage as I could focus on line delivery instead of reading the words correctly.
The objective of the lesson was to Take a sample text sheet and read the text in different ways.
We started with a small piece from Henry V. We started simple walking around the room and speaking the text then when we got to punctuation we changed direction. Then we said when there is a full stop,stop moving and change direction. This was good as it broke up the text and stopped sounding so dull and monotone.
We then explored how we can react to what is being spoken. We did this using a pice of text from Macbeth where lady Macbeth insults Macbeth. we did this buy repeating words the character Macbeth may take offence to such as coward. This helped the important words become more emphasised.
My skills developed in this lesson learning how to improve the reading and the tone of the text so it sounds more interesting.
I also discovered translating the text into a language then translating it back simplifies the language meaning it can help to understand the difficult words and phrases often found this something I will consider in the future if I am struggling with Shakespearian text.
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