Larry Gleason Text Analysis

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Larry Gleason
Text Analysis
1st Year ClassWork
Circle In The Square Professional Workshop

Welcome 1st Year
Sections 1a, 1b, 1c
Assignments, References,
Attendance Records, etc.

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given file, choose to open it
with Microsoft Word or a
similar text-based program,
unless otherwise noted.

Some of the same material is
available in Colin's office
or in the designated area in
Room 102.
Questions? contact Larry via
e-mail: info@larrygleason.com

TEXT ANALYSIS--WorkBook

An Overview

What The Script And The Playwright Are Trying To Tell Us

Presentations Collection-- A Compilation of documents used by all 06-7 and 07-8
sections.

Technical Work For Text
Think of this section as homework. We will not work on these specific pages in
class. However, they will be referred to and you will be expected to know what these
terms mean and how they are used in examining the text.

Parentheticals

Caesuras

Split Lines

Structures--If/Then Constructions

Structures--Antithesis (Compare/Contrasts)

Run-on Sentences

More Technical Work to be posted soon.

Assignments and Schedules
Check back weekly for changes and updates.

Text Analysis-Mondays

Text Analysis Presentations Round 1

Text Analysis Presentations Schedule Round 1

Text Analysis Presentations Round 2

Text Analysis Presentations Schedule Round 2

Classical Text-Fridays

Sonnets Text Work Study Guide (Microsoft Word document)

Sonnets Text Work Study Guide (PowerPoint presentation- Large file: 56K (12-15min
download).

The Sonnets (Microsoft Word document)

The 154 Sonnets of William Shakespeare Individual sonnets, all with audio

Sonnet 29

George Bernard Shaw Monologues

Shaw Monologue Instructions

Shaw Monologues--Men

Shaw Monologues--Women

Working on George Bernard Shaw Monologues Open with Microsoft PowerPoint, Large
file: 56K (12-15min download).

Shaw Monologues Presentation Schedule
TBA

For more information on The Art of Rhetoric and audio definitions of Literary Devices
used in good Rhetorical Speaking, go to this webpage.

The following plays by George Bernard Shaw used in Text Analysis are courtesy of
Project Gutenberg. Click on links to download free e-texts from Project Gutenberg or
directly from file.

From Project Gutenberg:
Arms and the Man
Androcles and the Lion
Candida
Heartbreak House
Major Barbara
Man and Superman
Misalliance
Mrs. Warren's Profession

From File:
Saint Joan
Pygmalion

If you have a chance, take in monthly readings of Shaw's plays at The Player's
Club in NYC. Go to PROJECT SHAW for more information.

Shakespearean Monologues

Looking for a Shakespearean monologue? Try here.

Shakespearean Insult Kit

Impress your friends or just for the fun of it -- Click here.

Shakespearean Sources

Major References-Shakespeare
The Actor and His Text by Cecily Berry
(companion text by Cecily Berry: Voice And The Actor)

Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary by Alexander Schmidt
Volume I A-M
Volume II N-Z
Every word defined and located, more than 50,000 quotations identified

Pronouncing Shakespeare’s Words (a guide from A to Zounds) by Dale F. Cole

Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Stephen Booth
Edited with analytic commentary

The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Helen Vendler
Detailed and erudite commentary

Essential Shakespeare Handbook by Leslie-Dunton Downer and Alan Riding

Shakespeare Quarterly by The Shakespeare Association of America
Periodical of essays referenced at The New York Public Library Main Branch on
42nd Street, NYC

The 154 Sonnets by Larry Gleason
All 154 Sonnets edited and spoken by Larry Gleason

Insight and Discussion-Books-Shakespeare

Shakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber
Shakespeare—The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
Shakespeare Comedies by Harold Bloom
Lectures on Shakespeare by W. H. Auden
Shakespeare’s Language by Frank Kermode
Shakespeare’s Wordplay by M. M. Mahood
Shakespeare’s Kings by John Julius Norwich
On Directing Shakespeare by Ralph Berry
Players of Shakespeare by Philip Brockbank
Playing Shakespeare by John Barton
Twelfth Night—A User’s Guide by Michael Pennington
I Am Hamlet by Steven Berkoff
Shakespeare’s Players by Judith Cook
Manners and Movements in Costume Plays by Isabel Chisman and Hester E. Raven-Hart
(may be out of print, check NYPL or Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library)
Shakespearean Tragedy (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth) by A. C. Bradley
Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale Critical Essays edited by Kenneth Muir

Internet-Shakespeare
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/festivals.htm Shakespearean Theaters
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/ The complete works of William Shakespeare
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/ The First Folio and Early Quartos of
William Shakespeare
http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/ Open Source Shakespeare attempts to be
the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works.
http://shakespeare.clusty.com/ Shakespeare Searched is a search engine designed to
provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

Other Text Sources

www.dramabookshop.com The Drama Book Store, NYC
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ Various free dictionaries of all types
www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s Free e-texts
www.doolee.com Free online guide to modern playwrights and theatre plays
www.historicaltimeline.com Five world history timelines merged
http://www.bibliomania.com Bibliomania has thousands of e-books, poems, articles,
short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricaldevicesinsound.htm Rhetorical Figures in
Sound is a compendium of 200+ brief audio (mp3) clips illustrating 40 different figures of
speech. Most of these figures were constructed, identified, and classified by Greek and
Roman teachers of rhetoric in the Classical period.

Attendance Records

Since your classes are so tightly scheduled, there is no way make up classes. The only
way to avoid probation is to not miss class. Check with Larry if you are unsure of your
attendance record. Latenesses and absences are reported and will lead to probation
and possibly severance from the program.

This page is intended for the exclusive use of students participating in the Circle In The
Square Professional Workshop, in particular its 1st year students. The class is called Text
Analysis. You are welcome to peruse this section if you like, but Larry cannot answer
questions, e-mails or phone calls regarding its content. Use and discussion pertaining to
these materials can only be done as part of the complete program offered by the Circle In
The Square Professional Workshop.

"Actors are constantly
wanting to understand
who they are and why
they are behaving the way
they are and to show it.
The secret to this play
(The Homecoming) is not
to show it. It's really
about putting it all
together, then forgetting
it because you have to
play very
moment-to-moment when
you do Pinter."

Daniel Sullivan
Director
The Homecoming
Currently on Broadway at
the Cort Theater

Whenever an actor gets
into trouble in a scene,
tell a dirty joke. Dirty
jokes have a beginning,
middle and end -- a
perfect storytelling device.

Alfred Hitchcock
paraphrased

Liev Scheiber on preparing
for MACBETH:

"With Shakespeare,
generally, because it's so
text-oriented, you have to
start with the text. For
me, character just kind of
springs out of that."

courtesy amNY.com

Said of Voice Coach Patsy
Rodenburg: "Patsy's
interest is not academic.
She will illuminate the
text in human terms so
that the relations make
absolute sense..straight
to the heart of what the
play's about." Ms
Rodenburg says: "It's a
small price to pay for
actors to be guided by
language and to trust the
words, to walk into the
text and to let the text
change them."

courtesy
The New York TIMES

As 'Biff' with Jacqueline Brookes in
DEATH OF A SALESMAN

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HYPATIA. ....I dont want to be good;
and I dont want to be bad: I just
dont want to be bothered about either
good or bad: I want to be an active
verb.

Misalliance/George Bernard Shaw

"The lesson we have to learn is
that our dislike for certain persons
does not give us any right to
injure our fellow creatures. The
social rule must be: 'Live and let
live.' "

-- George Bernard Shaw and an
example of sententia, a rhetorical
device.

Hal Prince on theater and
historical context:

"I've always believed that to
make a career in the theater,
or perhaps even to have
genuine appreciation of what
separates the theater from the
other media, is to have a
healthy grasp of its history.
It's a sad fact that so many of
our most famous playwrights
are unknown to young people
who pursue theatrical careers.
It seems impossible that the
mention of Sidney Kingsley or
Elmer Rice or Robert Sherwood
(four Pulitzer Prizes!) can be
met with blank stares. Not only
should these authors be known
and their plays be read..."

courtesy
NY Daily News

"Our doubts are traitors
and make us lose the good
we oft might win, by fearing
to attempt."

William Shakespeare

Monday May 19th, 2008
Larry Joined The Cast in PROJECT
SHAW'S THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE, written
by George Bernard Shaw in 1896, is a
thrilling comedy that employs the
unlikely backdrop of the American
Revolution. Some of Shaw's most
iconographic characters fill out this
story of revolt: of one country against
another, as well as of the inexhaustible
battle of the human spirit - how we
choose to create and define ourselves
in the face of societal expectations. In
this play, we find ourselves in 1777 New
Hampshire where Dick Dudgeon opens
his heart to life. Along the way,
everyone else goes through profound
changes of discovery, hope and
strength.

Mrs. Dudgeon — Ms. Mary Beth Peil*
Christopher Dudgeon — Mr. Dan Truman
Essie — Ms. Emily Young
Judith Anderson — Ms. Jennifer Ferrin**
Rev. Anthony Anderson — Mr. Charles
Edwards**
Lawyer Hawkins — Mr. Howard Kissel
William Dudgeon — Mr. John Martello
Major Swindon — Mr. John Bolton***
Richard Dudgeon — Mr. Euan Morton****
The Sergeant — Mr. Larry Gleason
General Burgoyne — Mr. Edward
Hibbert***

Host: Howard Kissel

Produced and directed by David Staller.

*Sunday In The Park With George
**The 39 Steps
***Curtains
****Taboo