100 Great Monologues from the Renaissance Theatre (Monologue Audition Series) - Softcover

Jocelyn A. Beard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880399598 ISBN 13: 9781880399590

Publisher: Smith & Kraus, 1994

Synopsis

The Renaissance arrived in Europe like a happy sigh. In England, playwrights found a premier home in the court of Elizabeth I. Voices like Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, George Peele and William Shakespeare came to be known as Elizabethan, and they sang to the world in revolutionary blank verse, proclaiming a new national identity for England, conqueror of the Spanish Armada.

And so the happy sigh became a joyous shout. Voice after voice was added to the din, until the playwrights of the Renaissance had broken every restraining wall left by the dark time that had preceded it. Think of it from your own - the actor's perspective: forced for centuries to portray only saints and other Biblical personages, suddenly you can play the King of England..or the Queen! Men and women in love; men and women scheming to get what they want; treachery; incest; heroics..the actor's palate is suddenly without limit, and a new craft is born..

About this title

About the Author:

Playwright/Editor Jocelyn A. Beard, a veteran of NYU's film school and the Yale School of Drama, has edited almost forty monologue books for Smith and Kraus. Her Screenplay, Igor and the Lunatics, was made into a feature film and subsequently listed in Heavy Metal magazine as "One of the 10 Sleaziest Movies Ever Made!" Notwithstanding, Jocelyn lives in an old haunted house in the Hudson River Valley with her husband, Kevin Kitowski, their beautiful daughter, Blythe, and lots of dogs.

Review:

...very serviceable and excellently composed volumes...imaginative selections, an inspired collection. --Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Smith & Kraus
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1880399598
• ISBN 13: 9781880399590
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186
• Editor: Jocelyn A. Beard