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Annotated Bibliography On Performing Macbeth

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Abhilash Singh

March 7th 2018

Annotated Bibliography

Performing Shakespeare

Source 1:

Shakespeare, William, and Newlin, Nick. The Tragedy of Macbeth. Nicolo Whimsey Press, 2010.

I feel the best way to learn about a Shakespeare play is actually performing it on stage. Since we got this amazing opportunity to perform Macbeth, I decided to research about how people perform this play. I was curious to know about other’s take on this play because Shakespeare’s plays can be performed in various ways with each point of view having a different impact on the audience.

I picked this book specifically because it is a part of a series of books by the author Nick Newlin called The 30-Mintue Shakespeare which specialized in teaching people how to perform Shakespeare’s plays in 30 minutes. Since this is exactly what we needed to do in this Project, I felt this book was extremely helpful. In the chapter Performing Shakespeare, Nick Newlin points out at a few key points one needs to follow in order to perform Shakespeare successfully. He talks about how you need to know what the words really mean, because if you don’t really know the true meaning of the words, the scene won’t have any impact because an actor needs to perform from his heart. He talks about the importance of enjoying the process because then the acting will come naturally to you. The biggest problem when you are performing for the first time stage fright and personally I wanted to know how to get over it. He

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