A detailed guide to approaching Shakespearean text, Speak the speech! contains everything an actor needs to select and prepare a Shakespeare monologue for class

The most authoritative, most comprehensive book yet written on the practicality of speaking Shakespeare.

Offers quotations from Shakespeare's works, arranged by subject, with a glossary of antiquated terms

The most comprehensive sourcebook of Shakespeare's monologues ever available in one volume. A detailed guide to approaching Shakespearean text, Speak the Speech

Actor, producer and director Ben Crystal revisits his acclaimed book on Shakespeare for the 400th anniversary of his death, updating and adding three new chapte