Exploring a Soliloquy | Text Detectives | Royal Shakespeare Company

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Using Hamlet's soliloquy from Act 1 scene 2 of Hamlet Paapa Essiedu suggests three key things to look for and explore whenever you are looking at a soliloquy for the first time, including Punctuation, Line Endings and Sounds.

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@carlchilders6069 4 жыл бұрын

I love the exercise/exploration of taking the final word in a line only and going through the whole speech. It tends to boil it down to essence or at least starts to develop it....also....actors tend to 'drop' the last words but we should not do that...William wants us to feel those last words....very much so....this is very expensive real estate and there is nothing extra!

@natalieurelle3868 4 жыл бұрын

Such an amazing actor. WOw

@LewisFernandezFilm 6 жыл бұрын

Very good. Keep doing educational videos for actors. It's very useful.

@locke6272 4 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic! How am I just finding this now? This just made my lesson today a bit more fun.

@name2589 4 жыл бұрын

Damn this chap can act

@awelemakeba2469 6 жыл бұрын

Shakespeare in the Classroom just shared a similar lesson. Powerful reinforcement via RSC video. Thanks!

@oshobayo9269 6 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed watching this video, thanks for uploading it.

@marmite2500 4 жыл бұрын

I'm no actor but this is so interesting

@biggmullemeck 3 жыл бұрын

Fy is an old Swedish word, it has no exact translation to English but it essentially means ”fuck that”. Interesting to see it used by Shakespeare, brings my thoughts to the Viking heritage of England.

@rociorinaldi2693 Жыл бұрын

I think they started to invade other countries at some point of History, because everybody invaded them first... they have heritage from the Vikings, the Celts, the Romans, the Anglo-saxon natives, the French... I had to study Word Formation in English, and there are a lot of bothering, coinage, suffixes ans prefixes, etc... British History is very entertaining, as well as Language History. Despite their flematic nature, or appaerance, I think they are really very passionate, although artists are the best to demonstrate it. For our, the Latins, they have the image of "cold" people, as most people from the North, but that is just because we are a bit noisy if compared with them... but I think that is changing nowadays... we are a little calmer and they are more... alive 🤣🤣🤣 with more blood in their veins... I like it...

@ianjohnson6355 Жыл бұрын

This guy is soooo good.

@Heavygusto 2 жыл бұрын

IDK if Paapa would reply to this, what would your thoughts be to a return of heckling as happened in original performances?I think you could play off of it.

@cheetor5923 Жыл бұрын

I wonder sometimes. How somebody, not an actor, not even a person who seems to feel or act the same way as others would approach Hamlet. Maybe I should try it.