Hamlet to Hamilton: Exploring Verse Drama

S1 E6: Whose Line (Ending) Is It Anyway?

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It's time to talk LINE BREAKS! From John Barton to Kristin Linklater, from Romeo and Juliet to The Winter's Tale, we're looking at how line endings work, how to act them...and that perennial question:  To enjamb or not to enjamb?

  • Featuring verse from: Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare), The Mother of God Visits Hell (Daniel Guyton), In Flight (Jenny Lyn Bader), The Lifted Instants Before the Fall: A Tale of Troy (Becca Musser), Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda) and "The Hollow Men" (T. S. Eliot), with reference to Travesties (Tom Stoppard) and The Second Shepherd's Play (The Wakefield Master)
  • Featuring text from: Freeing Shakespeare's Voice (Kristen Linklater), John Hadden on line-beginnings (thanks to The Shakespeare Forum), Modern Hamlets & Their Soliloquies (Mary Z. Maher), Playing Shakespeare (John Barton)

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