W. B. Worthen

Shakespeare Performance Studies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at Shakespeare through performance, capturing the dialogue between performance, Shakespeare, and contemporary concerns in the humanities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781107055957
• ISBN-10: 1107055954
• Artikelnr.: 40603226

Autorenporträt

W. B. Worthen is the author of many books on drama, performance theory, and Shakespeare, including The Idea of the Actor (1984), Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (1992), Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (Cambridge, 1997), Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance (Cambridge, 2003), Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama (Cambridge, 2005) and Drama: Between Poetry and Performance (2010). He has edited and co-edited several volumes of drama and theatre scholarship, and has served as an editor of Theatre Journal and Modern Drama, guest editor of Renaissance Drama, and is the editor of The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Shakespeare performance studies; 2. Intoxicating rhythms: Shakespeare
literature
and performance: Nature Theater of Oklahoma
Romeo and Juliet; 3. 'The written troubles of the brain': writing
character
and the cognition of performance: Punchdrunk Theatre
Sleep No More; 4. Retrotech: writing
theatre
and technologies of performance: Michael Almereyda
Hamlet.