Shakespeare has always been a major focus here at StageMilk. Working with Shakespearean text is essential for any actor! He is heralded for being the best playwright of all time, and for good reason. Both actors and theatremakers across the globe are enthralled and intrigued by William Shakespeare and his plays. For that reason, we have a great deal of Shakespeare resources and information, all of which can be found here.
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Hero, villain. White-hat, black-hat. Goodie, baddie. When it comes to the creation of compelling protagonists and antagonists, nobody did it quite like William Shakespeare. Shakespeare understood that a story is only as good as its...
Shakespeare is famously known for his masterful and downright revolutionary use of blank verse. Blank verse put simply; is un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. Shakespeare, of course, was not the only playwright in his...
William Shakespeare is one of the greatest poets and playwrights the world has ever seen. Certainly in the Western canon, his works are rivalled by few. For an actor, Shakespeare is the pinnacle of our...
This is a collection of some of the best female monologues from Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. One of his most beloved comedies, Much Ado is full of characters who seemingly have little...
Let’s take a look at one of Rosalind’s monologues from As You Like It. Rosalind is a great character to explore and only gets more fun throughout the play as she takes full flight. Rosalind...
Shakespeare was one funny guy. While today he is arguably more well known for his epic histories and tragedies such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear, he was one of the few writers of his...
The third of all of Shakespeare’s sonnets and the third in the Fair Youth phase. In this sonnet, we have the Poet saying to the Fair Youth that they should have a child in an...
Titus Andronicus is one of the more controversial Shakespeare plays. Written early in his career, and with all the gruesome flair you might expect of a young Quentin Tarantino, the play divides audiences with its...
All’s Well That Ends Well is not one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays. In fact, it’s one of his plays that is very rarely performed. It is also not a widely loved play: it currently...
In this sonnet, we see the poet directly referencing their own poetry, a theme we encounter many times throughout the sonnets. This is quite a sweet sonnet, we hear the poet essentially say to the...
