Acting: Shakespeare vs. Shaw

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According to the following recent article:

- The actress Vivien Leigh once said that this was what made Shakespeare so wonderful to act. He leaves so much unsaid.

To appear in a Bernard Shaw play, she said, was like “catching a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one’s place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea – one swims where one wants.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/the-tempest-william-shakespeare-enchanted-island-fantasy-set-in-a-sea-of-ambiguity-a6952976.html

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- The actress Vivien Leigh once said that this was what made Shakespeare so wonderful to act. He leaves so much unsaid.
To appear in a Bernard Shaw play, she said, was like “catching a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one’s place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea – one swims where one wants.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/the-tempest-william-shakespeare-enchanted-island-fantasy-set-in-a-sea-of-ambiguity-a6952976.html

That's because you are reading a script, not a book. It's just the words, there's no or little instructions on how to say them. It's why Shakespeare plays can be set at any time or place in history.
There's no one to tell you it's wrong, what you are doing.
But of course in reality the actual plays would have been done in a strict way. But that has now been lost. If it had survived, it's likely Shakespeare would be regarded as just another 16th Century author. With only a few people who liked the plays. Hollywood would have never made any of the plays into a movie, at least commercial ones.

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- The actress Vivien Leigh once said that this was what made Shakespeare so wonderful to act. He leaves so much unsaid.
To appear in a Bernard Shaw play, she said, was like “catching a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one’s place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea – one swims where one wants.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/the-tempest-william-shakespeare-enchanted-island-fantasy-set-in-a-sea-of-ambiguity-a6952976.html

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- The actress Vivien Leigh once said that this was what made Shakespeare so wonderful to act. He leaves so much unsaid.
To appear in a Bernard Shaw play, she said, was like “catching a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one’s place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea – one swims where one wants.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/the-tempest-william-shakespeare-enchanted-island-fantasy-set-in-a-sea-of-ambiguity-a6952976.html

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actor

And let go by the actor. Measure for Measure: II, ii
Then came each actor on his ass,-- Hamlet: II, ii

That did i, my lord; and was accounted a good actor. Hamlet: III, ii
I'll prove a busy actor in their play. As You Like It: III, iv

As an unperfect actor on the stage Sonnets: XXIII
An actor too, perhaps, if I see cause. A Midsummer Night's Dream: III, i

After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, King Richard II: V, ii
When roscius was an actor in rome,-- Hamlet: II, ii

The actor may plead pardon. i'll none now: Antony and Cleopatra: II, v
Like a dull actor now, Coriolanus: V, iii

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it? Measure for Measure: II, ii
A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor. All's Well that Ends Well: II, iii


William Shakespeare, director