On Teaching
On Teaching
(C) Shadi Shidrawi 2015
A prelude of preliminary techniques;
Skillfully yours!
Skillfully yours!
Strategies unfold,
Taking heed of the dictum.
Taking heed of the dictum.
Becoming a friendly command
A special sort of diction!
A special sort of diction!
All made in teaching
With that richness
Of eloquent guidance
Of the mind and soul.
With that richness
Of eloquent guidance
Of the mind and soul.
Theories unfold
Like glittering in gold
Like glittering in gold
Trespass the untrodden
Intrigue the unwilling
Humor the witty
Strengthen the weak
Intrigue the unwilling
Humor the witty
Strengthen the weak
That is what you do
While you are teaching.
While you are teaching.
Hamlet taught them
On acting he spoke,
Influenced Stanislavsky
The Actors in their studio
And beyond...
All teachers, behold!
On acting he spoke,
Influenced Stanislavsky
The Actors in their studio
And beyond...
All teachers, behold!
Hamlet says:
Speak the speech I pray you as I pronounced it to you,
trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it as many of your players
do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Speak the speech I pray you as I pronounced it to you,
trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it as many of your players
do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Nor do not saw the
air too much with your hand thus, but use all gently; for in the
very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion,
you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it
smoothness.
air too much with your hand thus, but use all gently; for in the
very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion,
you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it
smoothness.
Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split
the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of
nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise.
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split
the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of
nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise.
I would have such
a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant — it out-Herods Herod.
a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant — it out-Herods Herod.
Pray you avoid it.
Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your
tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this
special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For
anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both
at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere, the mirror up
to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image,
and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this
special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For
anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both
at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere, the mirror up
to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image,
and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful
laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the censure of the
which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of
others.
laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the censure of the
which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of
others.
Oh, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others
praise and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that neither having
the accent nor the gait have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's
journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated
humanity so abominably.
praise and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that neither having
the accent nor the gait have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's
journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated
humanity so abominably.
Oh reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns
speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that
speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that
will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators
to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of
the play be then to be considered.
That's villainous, and shows
a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go make you ready.
”
— Hamlet, (3.2.1)
— Hamlet, (3.2.1)
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