You’ve got to work up a classical two-person scene for audition,
performance, or practice. Poring through Shakespeare’s plays to locate
material that’s workable, accessible, and compatible with your needs
would take days if not weeks. Fortunately Douglas Newell presents a compact,
complete alternative in Shakespeare for Two.
Following the same format as his successful and essential Shakespeare for One,
Newell has dug out important and well-known dialogues as well as buried
treasures, presenting an unprecedented array of Shakespearean scenes. In
addition, Shakespeare for Two gives you the context vital to
understanding and playing each scene, including carefully crafted plot and
scene summaries, a guide to pronunciation, definitions of obscure words no
longer in common usage, and tools to help locate the right scene for your
purposes.
Shakespeare For Two is the invaluable, comprehensive resource that actors
contemplating Shakespearean scene work can not afford to be without.
