- Foreword Antony Sher
- Introduction
Part One: The Need for Words
- Connecting with Words
[rtoc]- The Speaking Act
- Distrust of Words
- Resistance to Words
- In the Beginning Was the Word
- The Power of Words
- The Importance of Oracy
- The Deeper Need for Words
- Lost Voices
- Not Empty Rhetoric
- Native Eloquence
- Words Are Physical
- A Three-Dimensional Process
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- The Breakdown of Words
[rtoc]- The Education Issue
- Who’s to Blame?
- The Written Word vs. The Spoken Word
- Speaking Your Way into Writing and Reading
- Discussion and Debate
- Training Young Actors
- Guarding Against Quick Fixes
- The Shakespeare Debate
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- Cultural and Physical Barriers
[rtoc]- The Age of Cacophony and Image Saturation
- Loss of Enjoyment
- Wit and Wordplay
- Irony and Satire
- The Tyranny of the Intellectual
- The Rule of Grammar
- Breaking the Rules
- Public Speech
- The Inability to Listen
- Tensions and Physical habits as Barriers
- Poetry
- Profanity
- Language of Gestures
- Codes and Code Breaking
- The Media and Tabloid Thinking
- Solipsism
- Advertising
- Power Talk or Don’t Talk Back
- The Passion-Mongers
- Sentimentality
- Fillers and Clichés
- Sexual Politics
- Political Correctness
- RP or Not RP
- RP is a Choice
- National Boundaries
- Overcoming the Speech Barrier
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Part Two: Voice and the Text
- Finding a Voice
[rtoc]- Releasing Physical Barriers
- Getting ‘In Voice’
- Focal Points
- Simple Voice Workout
- Preparing the Body
- Preparing the Breath
- Preparing the Voice
- Preparing the Speech Muscles
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- Voice into Text
[rtoc]- Connecting to a Text
- Experimenting with Language
- Sounding Real
- Language Exercises
- Simple Storytelling
- Epic Storytelling
- Debating
- Forms and Codes of Language
- Eloaborated Codes
- Restricted Codes
- Imagery
- Length of Thought
- The Stressing Game
- Language that Represses and Offends
- Preparing Your Own Speeches
- Exercise on Structuring a Speech
- Sound Words
- Drawing on Images
- Antithesis
- Wit, Puns and Wordplay
- Repetition
- Verse
- Exercises for the Iambic
- ‘Clearing the Though’ Exercise
- ‘I Don’t Believe You’ Exercise
- The Journey Through the Text
- The Story-Line Exercise
- The Discovery Exercise or ‘Of Course’
- The Range Exercise
- Physical Releases of the Text I
- Physical Releases of the Text II
- Breath and the Text
- Rooting the Word into the Breath
- Vocal Release of the Text
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- Working Further With Texts
[rtoc]- The Marriage between Voice and Text
- Clues from the Great Writers
- The Poetry Barrier
- The Structure of Verse
- The Way Words Work
- Starting with Shakespeare
- Speaking Shakespeare’s Text
- Sonnets
- Shakespeare’s Speeches
- Shakespearean Prose
- The Verse Duet
- Medieval Verse
- Christopher Marlowe
- John Milton
- Jacobean Drama
- A Modern Jacobean Equivalent
- The Age of Pope
- Restoration Dialogue
- Oscar Wilde
- George Bernard Shaw
- Styles in Speaking Texts
- Greek Tragedy
- Edward Bond
- William Blake
- Samuel Beckett
- Harold Pinter
- Working with Song Lyrics
- Bad texts
- Prologues and Epilogues
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