Speak, master: a text coach on Shakespeare's way with words
Text adviser Giles Block on how the Bard made everything from pauses to awkward phrases sound as natural and intensely theatrical as possibleIf I had to describe what I do in a sentence, I would say that I listen to how the actors are delivering Shakespeare's words. It's not really anything to do with voice production: it's more that I'm paying attention to how the thoughts travel into space, and I intervene if I thi…