Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance

This book analyses how Shakespeare is recreated in historical performance.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

W. B. Worthen analyses how Shakespeare is recreated in historical performance, exemplified by the Globe Theatre on Bankside; by international and intercultural performance; by film; and by the appearance of Shakespeare on the Internet. The book includes detailed discussions of recent film and stage productions.

Product details

• Authors: W. B. Worthen, William B. Worthen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.2015
• EAN: 9780521810302
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81030-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 492 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies