1st Edition

Shakespeare’s First Folio Cue Scripts – Romances and Histories A New Window on Shakespeare

By Patrick Tucker Copyright 2025
344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

Opening up a new window to see Shakespeare’s words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the Cue Scripts from the Romances and Histories in Shakespeare’s First Folio . The book invites readers to approach Shakespeare’s texts the way his actors would have – not studying the complete text and drawing conclusions from it, but working from a... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Cue Rolls and the Book  3. The First Folio  4. How to Use This Volume  5. A New Diagnostic Tool  6. Mini-Packages  7. Long Packages  8. Beginnings  9. Beginning examples with Cue Scripts  10. The 30 Clues

Biography

Patrick Tucker has been directing Shakespeare’s words in the theatre since 1964. He has directed almost 200 television programmes and over 200 theatre productions, with director credits including the BBC, the Royal Shakespeare Company, a Russian sit-com in Latvia, and a feature film.  He co-founded and ran the Original Shakespeare Company, putting on three Cue Script productions at Shakespeare’s Globe in London as well as in Australia, Canada, Germany, Jordan, and the USA. He has run screen acting masterclasses for over 40 years, lectured and taught worldwide, and is the author of Secrets of Screen Acting 4th edition, The Actor’s Survival HandbookSecrets of Acting Shakespeare  2nd edition, and Secrets of Screen Directing.