The Actor's book of classical monologues

309 Pages·1988·1.18 MB·English

by  Stefan Rudnicki

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Introduction

THE - GOLDEN AGE
Introduction
THE TROJAN WAR
THE THEBANS
OTHER TRAGEDIES
CHORUSES, COMICS, AND MESSENGERS

THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE - Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century
English Monologues
Introduction
ROMANCE AND COMEDY
King Lear
SHAKESPEARE’S FRIENDS - SERMONS, PRAYERS, TALES, AND
DREAMS
ARGUMENTS AND ENTERTAINMENTS

THE AGE OF STYLE - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English
Monologues
Introduction
COMEDY OF WIT
COMEDY OF CHARACTER AND SITUATION
TRAGEDY
ROMANCE
PARODIES

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THE ACTOR’S BOOK OF CLASSICAL MONOLOGUES
STEFAN RUDNICKI was born in Krakow, Poland, and lived in Stockholm,
Sweden, and Montreal, Canada, before arriving in the United States—where he
was educated principally at Columbia University and the Yale School of Drama.
In addition to having directed more than one hundred and twenty theatrical
productions in New York, regional theatre, and abroad (more than a quarter of
them classics and fifteen by Shakespeare), he is also an actor, producer, award-
winning playwright, photographer, and film and video director.
He has taught at the University of Rochester, the Eastman School of Music,
New York University, Dartmouth College, and Long Island University’s C. W.
Post Campus, where for six years he chaired the Department of Theatre and
Film.
He has been Artistic Director of Skyboat Road Company since 1979, and with
his wife, Judith, lives in New York City, developing new media projects,
teaching privately, and evolving his “Interactive Matrix Process” for performers.

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Copyright © Stefan Rudnicki, 1988
All rights reserved
Portions of this book first appeared in the author’s earlier publications,
Classical Monologues 1: Shakespeare and Classical Monologues 2. Shakespeare
and Friends. Copyright © Stefan Rudnicki, 1979, 1980.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
The Actor’s book of classical monologues / edited by Stefan Rudnicki.
p. cm.
1. Monologues. 2. Acting. 3. Greek drama. 4. English drama.
I. Rudnicki, Stefan, 1945-
PN2080.A283 1988
882’.01’08—dcl9 88-1378
eISBN : 978-1-10117391-6

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