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Shakespeare and Voice

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Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare's poetry and plays lend themselves to vocal performance by discussing how breath can be used to 'punctuate the thought'.

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Interviews on Great Writers
People
Linda Gates
Keywords
punctuation
poetry
drama
Henry V
shakespeare
voice
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 01/08/2012
Duration: 00:08:14

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