Lady Macbeth Research Paper
THE ROLE OF LADY MACBETH
IN SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH:
A PRODUCTION THESIS IN ACTING
A Thesis
Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the
Louisiana State University and
Agricultural and Mechanical College
In partial fulfillment of the
Requirements for the degree of
Master of Fine Arts in The Department of Theatre
by
Taralyn Adele MacMullen
B.A., Greensboro College, 2002
May 2005
Acknowledgements
The people who have helped me grow into the actor and person I am are too many to count. I know this acknowledgement will only scrape the surface, but these people deserve to have their names mentioned. Thank you everyone who has helped guide me these 25 years of life.
First, I must thank my family: Penny, David, Carla, Breann, …show more content…
The critical information used is from Harold Bloom’s The Invention of the Human, as well as Jan Kott’s Shakespeare Our Contemporary. Other resources I utilized were Holinshed’s Chronicles and information on the historical Macbeth. All references have been listed in the Bibliography of this thesis. I have also discussed my own approach to the role using specific questions about the character herself, as well as my relationship to the character.
The actor’s journal is a daily account of the process of creating a character. I have discussed my day-to-day discoveries and questions. I have also mentioned major events that affected my work within the process. These journal entries do not contain cast gossip or my complaints about the process, only information that shaped the final character presented to the audience.
The physical score is a breakdown of my moment to moment physicality as I performed it. I decided to include this element because as I worked on the role of Lady
Macbeth it became apparent to me that the more precise I became with my physicality the clearer she became. I choreographed an extremely specific score that lasted the length of
IN SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH:
A PRODUCTION THESIS IN ACTING
A Thesis
Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the
Louisiana State University and
Agricultural and Mechanical College
In partial fulfillment of the
Requirements for the degree of
Master of Fine Arts in The Department of Theatre
by
Taralyn Adele MacMullen
B.A., Greensboro College, 2002
May 2005
Acknowledgements
The people who have helped me grow into the actor and person I am are too many to count. I know this acknowledgement will only scrape the surface, but these people deserve to have their names mentioned. Thank you everyone who has helped guide me these 25 years of life.
First, I must thank my family: Penny, David, Carla, Breann, …show more content…
The critical information used is from Harold Bloom’s The Invention of the Human, as well as Jan Kott’s Shakespeare Our Contemporary. Other resources I utilized were Holinshed’s Chronicles and information on the historical Macbeth. All references have been listed in the Bibliography of this thesis. I have also discussed my own approach to the role using specific questions about the character herself, as well as my relationship to the character.
The actor’s journal is a daily account of the process of creating a character. I have discussed my day-to-day discoveries and questions. I have also mentioned major events that affected my work within the process. These journal entries do not contain cast gossip or my complaints about the process, only information that shaped the final character presented to the audience.
The physical score is a breakdown of my moment to moment physicality as I performed it. I decided to include this element because as I worked on the role of Lady
Macbeth it became apparent to me that the more precise I became with my physicality the clearer she became. I choreographed an extremely specific score that lasted the length of