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Any student embarking on training, or any actor who wants to know more about Shakespeare's words and how to speak them, will learn a lot from this book. - The Stage If you want to know how to do something well, find yourself the best expert in the field and get them to teach you. Giles Block is currently Master of the Words at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and has been since its opening in 1999. ... I will certainly be using [his book] the next time I direct Shakespeare. - Teaching Drama Magazine Fresh and innovative... a useful and valuable addition to the field of Shakespeare scholarship. - ReviewsGate.com A tour de force from a theatrical insider... a handbook that Hamlet might have given to his players. - Ink Pellet magazine

Any student embarking on training, or any actor who wants to know more about Shakespeare's words and how to speak them, will learn a lot from this book. - The Stage If you want to know how to do something well, find yourself the best expert in the field and get them to teach you. Giles Block is currently Master of the Words at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and has been since its opening in 1999. ... I will certainly be using [his book] the next time I direct Shakespeare. - Teaching Drama Magazine Fresh and innovative... a useful and valuable addition to the field of Shakespeare scholarship. - ReviewsGate.com A tour de force from a theatrical insider... a handbook that Hamlet might have given to his players. - Ink Pellet magazine Any student embarking on training, or any actor who wants to know more about Shakespeare's words and how to speak them, will learn a lot from this book. - The Stage If you want to know how to do something well, find yourself the best expert in the field and get them to teach you. Giles Block is currently Master of the Words at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and has been since its opening in 1999. ... I will certainly be using [his book] the next time I direct Shakespeare. - Teaching Drama Magazine Fresh and innovative... a useful and valuable addition to the field of Shakespeare scholarship. - ReviewsGate.com A tour de force from a theatrical insider... a handbook that Hamlet might have given to his players. - Ink Pellet magazine

-Any student embarking on training, or any actor who wants to know more about Shakespeare's words and how to speak them, will learn a lot from this book.- - The Stage -If you want to know how to do something well, find yourself the best expert in the field and get them to teach you. Giles Block is currently Master of the Words at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and has been since its opening in 1999. ... I will certainly be using [his book] the next time I direct Shakespeare.- - Teaching Drama Magazine -Fresh and innovative... a useful and valuable addition to the field of Shakespeare scholarship.- - ReviewsGate.com -A tour de force from a theatrical insider... a handbook that Hamlet might have given to his players.- - Ink Pellet magazine

Any student embarking on training, or any actor who wants to know more about Shakespeare's words and how to speak them, will learn a lot from this book. - The Stage If you want to know how to do something well, find yourself the best expert in the field and get them to teach you. Giles Block is currently Master of the Words at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and has been since its opening in 1999. ... I will certainly be using [his book] the next time I direct Shakespeare. - Teaching Drama Magazine Fresh and innovative... a useful and valuable addition to the field of Shakespeare scholarship. - ReviewsGate.com A tour de force from a theatrical insider... a handbook that Hamlet might have given to his players. - Ink Pellet magazine

Any student embarking on training, or any actor who wants to know more about Shakespeare's words and how to speak them, will learn a lot from this book. - The Stage If you want to know how to do something well, find yourself the best expert in the field and get them to teach you. Giles Block is currently Master of the Words at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and has been since its opening in 1999. ... I will certainly be using [his book] the next time I direct Shakespeare. - Teaching Drama Magazine Fresh and innovative... a useful and valuable addition to the field of Shakespeare scholarship. - ReviewsGate.com A tour de force from a theatrical insider... a handbook that Hamlet might have given to his players. - Ink Pellet magazine Any student embarking on training, or any actor who wants to know more about Shakespeare's words and how to speak them, will learn a lot from this book. - The Stage If you want to know how to do something well, find yourself the best expert in the field and get them to teach you. Giles Block is currently Master of the Words at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and has been since its opening in 1999. ... I will certainly be using [his book] the next time I direct Shakespeare. - Teaching Drama Magazine Fresh and innovative... a useful and valuable addition to the field of Shakespeare scholarship. - ReviewsGate.com A tour de force from a theatrical insider... a handbook that Hamlet might have given to his players. - Ink Pellet magazine

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Giles Block is 'Master of the Words' at Shakespeare's Globe. Mark Rylance is one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation. He has played many of the great Shakespearean roles, both for the Royal Shakespeare Company and as Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe (1996-2006). He has won numerous awards for roles in London and on Broadway, most famously in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, in which he created the role of Johnny 'Rooster' Byron. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies (2015), and played the part of the BFG in Spielberg's film adaptation of Roald Dahl's book. On television he played Thomas Cromwell in the BBC's acclaimed dramatisation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, directed by Peter Kosminsky. As a writer, his plays include I Am Shakespeare (Chichester Festival Theatre, 2007) and Nice Fish (co-written with Louis Jenkins; Guthrie Theater, US, 2013; New York and West End, 2016). Mark Rylance was knighted in the 2017 New Year honours list. Photo by Simon Annand

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