Henry V Director's Playbook - Softcover

Shakespeare, William; Newborn, Sasha

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9780942208726: Henry V Director's Playbook

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ISBN 10: 0942208722 ISBN 13: 9780942208726

Publisher: Bandanna Books, 2012

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The Director's Playbook series, including Henry V, is a combination workbook/sketchbook for dealing with all the production elements that go into actually producing a Shakespeare play. The director has plenty of sketching, note-taking space for every scene, with a stage diagram (one per scene) for placement of sets or actors' marks, keylines for easy reference, a chart of entrances and exits to keep track of who's on stage when, space for auditioning notes, tips for inexperienced actors on how to memorize long speeches, and sections for the producer, responsible for the budget, for designing the playbill, the publicity strategy, booking space at a theater, etc. And Pre-production includes set design, space for notes on each scene, costuming or wardrobe, getting measurements for the actors and the extras, stage management for shuffling around the sets, cuing actors, the lights, sound, photography. And then, "just add actors." Henry V is a "happy" play in the sense that we are seeing a good king accomplishing great deeds; it is part of a series that Shakespeare did of English history. The very end of Falstaff, who is not actually seen in this play, though he is discussed several times, is a part of the back story of Henry V, who once was Prince Hal, Falstaff's buddy and participant in outrageous lowlife activities. Like the format but want a different play? The list of Playbooks available: Hamlet (www.createspace.com/3742231) Merchant of Venice (www.createspace.com/3862570) Taming of the Shrew (www.createspace.com/3938142) Twelfth Night (www.createspace.com/3894336) Romeo and Juliet (www.createspace.com/3891241) A Midsummer Night's Dream (www.createspace.com/3893774) Much Ado About Nothing (www.createspace.com/3965392) Macbeth (www.createspace.com/3967549) Othello (www.createspace.com/3963830) As You Like It (www.createspace.com/3940714) Richard III (www.createspace.com/3962607) Henry V (www.createspace.com/3969195)

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About the Author:

William Shakespeare, the third of eight children, was born on April 23, 1564 in the English market town of Stratford-upon-Avon. His father became the mayor of Stratford in 1568 and worked as a glovemaker and a moneylender. Four years after leaving school at approxi-mately the age of fourteen, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in November of 1582; their first child Susan-nah was born in May of the following year. Two years later, Anne gave birth to twins, Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, a period called “the lost years,” there is almost no evidence about Shakespeare’s life, nor is there any solid evidence about how or why he made his way to London to become a dramatist. By 1592, however, Shake-speare’s reputation as a playwright and poet had begun to grow. In 1594, he helped found a new theater company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, and be-came the company’s dramatist. Shakespeare’s success increased, and by 1598, the year he registered The Merchant of Venice, he had already purchased one of the biggest residences in Stratford. Some of Shakespeare’s richest dramatic work was written after the founding of the Globe Theater by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men in 1599, including Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. After 1611, Shakespeare largely retired from the theater to spend more time in Stratford. He died in 1616 on his birthday, April 23, when he was fifty-two years old.

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