The Actor and the Text  8737

• Foreword   Trevor Nunn

Part One: Attitudes to Voice and Text

1. Sound and Meaning
   • Attitudes to voice
   • The practical means
2. Heightened versus Naturalistic Text

Part Two: Shakespeare — Setting out the Rules

3. Metre and Rhythm
4. Structures, Energy, Imagery and Sound
   • Energy through the text
   • Antithesis
   • Substance of the word
   • Discovery and movement of thought
   • Nature of the image, its logic and its inquiry into nature
   • Argument and emotion
   • Word games and patterns
   • Structure of speeches

Part Three: Shakespeare — The Practical Means

5. Introduction to the Exercises
6. Substance of the Text
   • Sounds: vowels and consonants
   • Hearing the language: substance of text
   • Language fabric
7. Metre and Energy
   • Metre
   • Energy through the text
   • Subversion — or making language your own
8. Acting, Text and Style
9. Further points of text
   • Prose
   • Heightenend music
   • Scene structures
   • Recap on speech structures
   • Sonnets
10. Relating to Other Texts
    • Jacobean text
    • Restoration text
    • Formal modern text
    • Modern text

Part Four: Voice Work

11. Preparation
    • Finding the space
    • Using poetry
    • Cadence and note
12. Further Voice Exercises

• Further Perspectives
• Index of Quotations
• Quotes by subject

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