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Right. Good morning, everyone. Settle

down now, please. Now, as you may know,

we were hoping to have Mr Jeremy Irons

with us this morning, talking to us about

the art of acting in the cinema.

Unfortunately, Mr Irons has had to cancel

due to an unforeseen awards ceremony.

But I have been able to procure the

services of a local actor, Mr Bernard

Hupper, who was luckily not

busy. So it's my pleasure now to

read for Mr. Huppup as he illustrates his

own lecture on Shakespearean acting

entitled The Actor's Art.

So, the actor's art by Bernard Huppup.

At the centre of the Elizabethan world

sits the king.

Upon the character of the king depends

the plot, and so there are many different

kinds of king. The benign king.

The benign king with a physical defect.

The mad king.

The evil king.

The evil king hatching a plot.

The mad king hatching an egg.

An important part was also played by

messengers, distinguishable into many

different types. A messenger enters

bearing good news.

A messenger enters bearing bad news.

A messenger enters bearing indifferent

news.

A messenger enters bearing bad news,

which he thinks is good news.

Death came swift and often in this brutal

world.

Death could come at the hands of a total

stranger.

Or it could come at the hands of one's

closest friend.

Ah Poison was particularly popular,

applied to the frothing cup of ale of the

unsuspecting victim. First we look at the

simple poisoning kill.

Bleh!

And then the villain attempting to use

poison.

The plot stands the hero who is king.

He has a twin brother.

Who is a villain. With a physical

defect. War

comes and the hero must lead his men into

battle.

At the gate, the hero's mistress waits to

bid her lover farewell.

And the villain's mistress bids her lover

farewell also.

The war rages on for many years.

Until at last, a messenger arrives

bearing the bad news of the death of the

hero.

So the villain becomes king.

But the message was wrong. And

years later, the hero returns.

In disguise.

Revealing his identity to the audience by

means of a surreptitious wink.

But his brother, the villain,

recognizes him, and they fight.

Finally, the

villain is mortally wounded.

He dies.

In character. Our

hero wins his rightful throne

and celebrates with a frothing cup of ale

found by the side of his brother'sthrone.