More Power to YouMore Power to You is acting guru Robert Cohen's follow-up act to his now legendary Acting Power. Now, More Power to You brings together Cohen's most important writing on performance, plays and productions. Among the diverse subjects the reader will learn about are, that Shakespeare's actors cried real tears (and had their methods on how to make the tears flow); that Hamlet was sixteen; what that secret is that British actors have for running off with all the American stage awards, and why kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst robbed that bank (and what that has to do with a book on theatre!). |
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... give the floor to an interlocutor . " 1 And as to its ubiquity , Levelt concludes that the " relation between pitch range and intended attentional effect might well be universal in the world's languages . " 2 Inflections thus serve many ...
... give the floor to an interlocutor . " 1 And as to its ubiquity , Levelt concludes that the " relation between pitch range and intended attentional effect might well be universal in the world's languages . " 2 Inflections thus serve many ...
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... give the banquet toast : " My royal lord , You do not give the cheer ” ( III.iv.32-33 ) . Never has drinking been less cheery than here . Drinking gives way to insanity midway through the play ; a mental derangement caused by ...
... give the banquet toast : " My royal lord , You do not give the cheer ” ( III.iv.32-33 ) . Never has drinking been less cheery than here . Drinking gives way to insanity midway through the play ; a mental derangement caused by ...
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... give over all selfish interests , all pride , and all identity . He must even give up the " right " of knowledge and questioning : To empty ourselves of our false divinity , to give up being the center of the world in imagination ... To ...
... give over all selfish interests , all pride , and all identity . He must even give up the " right " of knowledge and questioning : To empty ourselves of our false divinity , to give up being the center of the world in imagination ... To ...
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