{"id":101954,"date":"2016-05-08T11:33:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T11:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/08\/shakespearean-spunk-you-make-my-heart-beat-in\/"},"modified":"2016-05-08T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T11:33:51","slug":"shakespearean-spunk-you-make-my-heart-beat-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/08\/shakespearean-spunk-you-make-my-heart-beat-in\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/shakespearean-spunk.tumblr.com\/post\/73045257466\" target=\"_blank\">shakespearean-spunk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cyou make my heart beat in iambic pentameter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>no you don\u2019t understand shakespeare literally writes to the beat of your heart<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<em>that\u2019s<\/em> why shakespearean actors will sometimes pound their chests in time to the words during readings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<em>that\u2019s<\/em> why you use fluctuations in the rhythm to track your character\u2019s emotional state &#8211; any irregularities in the scansion are like the character\u2019s heart stuttering or jumping or skipping a beat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<em>that\u2019s<\/em> why when characters share the rhythm &#8211; switching off in the middle of a foot &#8211; those characters inevitably have an extraordinarily intimate connection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>shakespeare fucking writes viscerally, he is literally in your body, and that, my friend, <em>that<\/em> is why the best shakespearean actors don\u2019t posture and emote<\/p>\n<p>you have to be fucking alive and passionate and electric &#8211; it can\u2019t be intellectual, in the end, it has to be about connection and the sweating, cheering, jeering, bleeding masses you\u2019re performing to, because make no mistake, shakespeare may go to lofty heights, but he only works if you\u2019re just as grounded in the earth. he has to be in your body. <em>he has to be in your body<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>holy motherfucking shit i love shakespeare so much, get him in your bones, breathe him in, stomp and rage and pine, da<em>dum<\/em> da<em>dum<\/em> da<em>dum<\/em> da<em>dum<\/em> da<em>dum, <\/em>it is literally to the<em> beat of your heart<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shakespearean-spunk: \u201cyou make my heart beat in iambic pentameter.\u201d no you don\u2019t understand shakespeare literally writes to the beat of your heart that\u2019s why shakespearean actors will sometimes pound their chests in time to the words during readings that\u2019s why you use fluctuations in the rhythm to track your character\u2019s emotional state &#8211; any irregularities &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/08\/shakespearean-spunk-you-make-my-heart-beat-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[446,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}