W. B. Worthen

Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses how Shakespeare is recreated in historical performance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780521810302
• ISBN-10: 0521810302
• Artikelnr.: 35684601

Autorenporträt

W. B. Worthen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Idea of the Actor: Drama and the Ethics of Performance (1984), Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (1992), Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (Cambridge, 1997), and of a wide range of articles on drama and performance in major journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: dramatic performativity and the force of performance
1. Performing history
2. Globe performativity
3. Shakespearean geographies
4. Cyber-performance.