The Shakespeare Deck – Second Edition

The Shakespeare Deck is a powerful, portable toolkit for actors seeking to wield the full power of Shakespeare’s words, enabling you to get more from your text work, for auditions, rehearsals and performances.

Possibilities are opened up by discoveries made in the text, by you, in response to new ways of looking at what’s embedded into the page.

Shakespeare and his actors had a shared knowledge-base that the Deck helps you to reveal, discovering more to feed your imagination and interpretation than would be possible at first glance.

Instead of feeling like you’re fighting against the text, or imposing assumptions onto it, the Deck allows you to make informed choices that work with, and enrich, what is there on the page, all without limiting your ownership or originality in the role.

The Shakespeare Deck is deliberately concise, and eminently flexible. It can be used as you see fit, to suit your needs in the particular moment. Unlike a book, which requires a weighty and spacious volume to be carried around for something that may be on a single page, the deck is lightweight, durable, and remixable – take out the card(s) you need now, and return it once you’re finished.

It serves best as a series of reminders, inspirations, and seeds of creative practice, which offer a structured exploration of the potential in the words and can expand the possibilities available to you in every situation.

The Shakespeare Deck will prove invaluable for anyone studying or performing classical and early modern texts, including Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Contains:

56 Definitions (with examples)

32 Exercises (for individuals and groups)

15 Prompts (to keep you on the right track)

Product Details:

• Standard card-deck size for portability
• Nylon finish for robustness & ease of use
• 8pt broadsheet font-size for readability
• Colour-coding for easy orientation
• Numbered cards for easy ordering
• Clear key (exercises, definitions and prompts) for easy selection
• Font & colours chosen in line with British Dyslexia Association best practice guidelines and product testing with dyslexic actors
• Contains 54 double-sided cards

Shipping:

UK – typically dispatched within 3-5 working days.*

International – typically dispatched within 3-5 working days*, delivery times vary by country.

*Times vary due to Pandemic, Brexit and parental leave.