Public Speaking Guides

Stand and Deliver gives you everything you need to know to become an incredibly poised, polished, masterful communicator. Someone who can hold an a...

Dramatically increase your effectiveness as a presenter Like a well-choreographed dance, an effective presentation involves leading and following, ...

This book outlines a coherent genre history of the personal weblog from the perspective of media linguistics. An analysis of a diachronic corpus (1...

King Henry IV, Part I: The 30-Minute Shakespeare combines comedy, tragedy, and history into a rollicking six-scene drama performable in a half hour...

Love’s Labor’s Lost: The 30-Minute Shakespeare plays three action-packed scenes from this tale of King Navarre and his three lords, who have vowed ...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challeng...

Get young people excited about Shakespeare! The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The co...

Hamlet: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five scenes from this enduring tragedy. The Ghost of Hamlet’s father calls for vengeance, and Hamlet uses...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challeng...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challeng...

King Lear: The 30-Minute Shakespeare renders six powerful scenes from this enduring tragedy. Starting with Lear’s banishment of Cordelia, the plot ...

"A truly fun, emotional, and sometimes magical first experience . . . guided by a sagacious, knowledgeable, and intuitive educator."—Library Journa...

"A master at engaging students in the process of performing a Shakespeare scene."—Janet Field-Pickering, head of education, Folger Shakespeare Libr...

Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents eight spellbinding scenes from this timeless masterpiece. The action begins as the soothsayer war...

As You Like It: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents seven captivating scenes from this merry play. Rosalind, disguised as a man (“Ganymede”), “teach...

The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five raucous scenes from this extravaganza of mistaken identity. The abridgement begins wit...

The Tempest: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers eight scenes from this rich comedy. Beginning with the magical storm and shipwreck, this adaptation i...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challeng...

The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents six captivating scenes from this high-spirited play. Proteus pledges his love to Ju...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challeng...

Many people have been in those awkward situations in which they’re the center of attention with no idea what to say or how to say it. Vernon shares...

“Instructive and entertaining.”—Wall Street JournalLearn how to argue from the masters. This book is a complete course on the art of argument, taug...

"[Cappello's] excellent new book-length essay, Lecture... at once defends the lecture and calls for holistic and creative improvements to the form....

In an era increasingly marked by polarized and unproductive political debates, this volume makes the case for a renewed emphasis on teaching speech...

*NEW EDITION FEATURING UPDATED MATERIAL*'Erudite, interesting and, above all, entertaining' ALAN JOHNSON, FORMER UK HOME SECRETARY'A racy, engrossi...

Public Speaking for Psychologists is a practical and lighthearted guide to planning, designing, and delivering a presentation. Public speaking is ...

Communication expert and popular speaker Quentin Schultze offers a practical, accessible, and inspiring guide to public speaking, showing readers h...

Find your voice, and communicate with confidence Ever wondered why nobody hears you in meetings, or wished people would take you more seriously? Or...

Groom or bride, straight or gay. Nail the perfect words to say.There's no longer an excuse for wedding speeches to be a tedious succession of predi...

Accomplished public speakers know that just a few enduring principles govern the key to success. James O’Rourke, a distinguished professor of manag...