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Getting a Taste for the Bard
Ben Crystal: Shakespeare on Toast Ben Crystal: Shakespeare on Toast

Actor and author Ben Crystal brings the bright words and colorful characters of the world’s greatest hack writer brilliantly to life, handing over the key to William Shakespeare’s plays, unlocking the so-called difficult bits and, astonishingly, finding Shakespeare’s own voice in among the poetry.

Told in five fascinating acts, Shakespeare on Toast sweeps the cobwebs from the Bard – from his language, his life, his time – revealing both the man and his work to be relevant, accessible, and full of beans.

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Icon Books, London, 2009
262 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9781848310544

Enciklopédia 1

Szereplők népszerűség szerint

Philip Henslowe


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Ben Crystal: Shakespeare on Toast

Ben Crystal: Shakespeare on Toast Getting a Taste for the Bard

Nagyjából azokat a dolgokat írja le, amit a legtöbb irodalomtörténet leír Shakespeare-ről. Közvetlen stílusa van, és jól magyaráz. Rövid kis fejezetekben összefoglalja a főbb tudnivalókat. Az volt a legérdekesebb, amit a Shakespeare szövegek ritmusáról írt, és kifejtette, hogy szótag-számokkal, a verslábak számával, a jambikus pentameter használatával, vagy épp azzal, amikor egy sorban nem 10 szótag van, Shakespeare tulajdonképpen instruálja a színészeket arra, hogy az adott szöveget éppen hogyan kell elmondani. Ezt amúgy a drámából vagy a leírt szövegből lehet érezni, de most egészen tudatosan meg is fogalmazta. (Kár, hogy nem jelent meg magyarul.) Ez valószínűleg a Shakespeare-drámáknak azzal az oldala, amivel csak kevesen foglalkoznak.


Népszerű idézetek

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How much did a costume cost?
Thanks for the diary of the theatre manager Philip Henslowe (c. 1550-1616) we have an idea how much money was put towards the costumes.
He notes that he bought 'a black cloak with sleeves embroidered all with silver and gold' for £20 10s 6d.
That would be equivalent to £2,692 today or 1,642 Elizabeth loaves of bread or more than a third of the price Shakespeare paid for the finest house in Stratford…

59. oldal The Costumes (Icon Books, 2012)

Ben Crystal: Shakespeare on Toast Getting a Taste for the Bard

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Philip Henslowe
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Despite the fact that he was as human, flawed and fallible as the rest of us, the one rule that has always guided me straight and true with Shakespeare is this:
There is always a reason for it.
No matter how complicated, no matter how ostensibly random, how annoying, boring or just plain bad a scene or a line seems to be, there is always a reason for it being there.
You just have to find out what it is.
And I promise: the search is always worth it.

246. oldal Epilogue (Faber and Faber, 2010)

Ben Crystal: Shakespeare on Toast Getting a Taste for the Bard

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But a Shakespeare director, a very nice bearded chap called Patrick Tucker, told me once that Shakespeare's poetry has a system to it; that it's full of hidden clues from Shakespeare telling his actors how to deliver his lines; and that once you know how, the poetry is practically colour-coded, literally letting you read it by numbers. Alan Turing and Dan Brown eat your heart out.

108. oldal A Christmas tree, Liverpool (Icons, 2010)

Ben Crystal: Shakespeare on Toast Getting a Taste for the Bard

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The foundation of it all, though, is poetry. Understand how iambic pentameter works and you can talk to Shakespeare.
I mean it. You can have a conversation with him.

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Ben Crystal: Shakespeare on Toast Getting a Taste for the Bard


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Kofi Anyidoho – Abena P. A. Busia – Anne V. Adams (szerk.): Beyond Survival
Ken Follett: A Column of Fire
Edward James – Farah Mendlesohn (szerk.): The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
Paul de Man: The Rhetoric of Romanticism
Sandra Gilbert – Susan Gubar: The Madwoman in the Attic