Part 1: Finding Style 1. Recognizing Style: The eyes of the beholder 2. Analyzing Style: Survival questions 3. Mastering Style: The classical actor Part 2: Achieving Style 4. Greek Period Sytle: Three generations of tragic vision 5. Elizabethan Period Style: Theatre of earth and stars 6. Restoration Period Style: Decadence as one of the fine arts 7. Relatives of Restoration Period Style: Morals, manner and madness Part 3: Exploring Style 8. Fusion Style: Imagination and innovation 9. Global Style: Worldwide influence and invention 10. Personal Style: Creating reality Appendices
Biography
Robert Barton is the author of Acting: Onstage and Off and Acting Reframes, co-author of Voice: Onstage and Off, Movement: Onstage and Off, Theatre in Your Life and Life Themes, and editor and adaptor of The Craft of Comedy. His seminal essay "Creative Acting" appears in Creativity in Theatre. His works aim to help readers move beyond acting in theatre to use it to more effectively act their own lives.
"Excellent scholarship presents and wealth of information for actors interested in how to approach plays of different periods and styles." - Dawn Arnold, Northern Illinois University, USA
