Part one: objective things
The two traditions - Elizabethan and modern acting
Using the verse - Heightened and naturalistic verse
Language and character - Making the words one's own
Using the prose - Why does Shakespeare use prose?
Set speeches and soliloquies - taking the audience with you
Using the sonnets - Going over some old ground
Part two: subjective things
Irony and ambiguity - text that isn't what it seems
Passion and coolness - a question of balance
Rehearsing the text - Orsino and Viola
Exploring a character - playing Shylock
Contemporary Shakespeare - a discussion
Poetry and hidden poetry - three kinds of failure
