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Recommended reading from Tim Perfect:
Just click on the book you want to buy, and it will take you to the Amazon Site! These are some basic Acting texts that every actor should have as a part of their library! Read on!
Shakespeare
A Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare
A Topical Guide to over 3,000 Great Passages from the Plays, Sonnets, and Narrative Poems
Hinman's First Folio of Shakespeare
Charlton Hinman's facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio - Highly Recommended.
Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
The Complete Arden Shakespeare, available for the first time in a single volume, contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, as edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's oeuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.
Reduced Shakespeare Company's Complete Works of Wllm. Shakspr.
All thirty-seven of the Bard's works, plus the sonnets, in under two hours! Startle your co-workers! Impress your friends!
Alternative Shakespeare Auditions for Men
This book brings together fifty speeches for men from plays frequently ignored such as Titus Andronicus, Pericles, and Love's Labours Lost. It also includes good but over-looked speeches from the more popular plays. Each speech is accompanied by a character description, brief explanation of the context, and notes on obscure words, phrases, and references--all written from the view point of the auditioning actor.
A Dictionary of Who, What, and Where in Shakespeare : A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare's Plays, Characters, and Contemporaries
This is what the RSC uses! Provides historical background and really is comprehensive! Little is left out.
Acting Process
An Actor Prepares
The first volume of Stanislavski's enduring trilogy on the art of acting.
Building A Character
The second volume of Stanislavski's enduring trilogy on the art of acting.
Creating A Role
The third volume of Stanislavski's enduring trilogy on the art of acting.
Acting: The First Six Lessons
A mainstain for actors and directors alike...contains a lifetime of knowledge.
Actors on Acting
A comprehensive collection of the actor's art and craft, by the theater's greatest practitioners, from ancient Greece to the 20th century.
Sanford Meisner on Acting
A primer for aspiring and beginning actors, by one of the most renowned and beloved acting coaches in the U.S. - Introduction by Sydney Pollack.
On the Technique of Acting : The First Complete Edition
In the four decades since its first publication, Michael Chekhov's To the Actor has become a standard text for students of the theater. This new, definitive version of his master work clarifies the principles Chekhov taught Yul Brynner, Gregory Peck, Marilyn Monroe, and Anthony Quinn, among others. Line drawings.
