Oral Interpretation

For over fifty years, "Oral Interpretation" has successfully prepared readers to analyze and perform literature through an accessible, step-by-step process. The authors classic commitment to helping readers understand literature then to embody and evoke the work has been refined to offer a more concise, user-friendly process that will help them succeed in their daunting first performance. Updated with a tightly edited collection of classic and contemporary selections, each chapter provides a wide variety of selections for learners at all levels. Chapters devoted to each genre---narrative, poetry, drama, group performance-explore the unique challenges of each form while newly revised chapters on Using the Body and Using the Voice in performance introduce readers to technical exercises to promote performance flexibility.