Shakespeare Performance Studies

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

Considering three well-known recent performances of Shakespeare at length, Worthen suggests how they provide a commentary on important areas of concern in the humanities, and what Shakespeare performance tells us about contemporary Shakespeare. This book is of interest to scholars and advanced students of Shakespeare and of performance studies.

Product details

• Authors: W. B. Worthen, W. B. (Barnard College Worthen, William B Worthen, William B. Worthen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2014
• EAN: 9781107055957
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05595-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Europe, English, Theatre Studies, Literature & literary studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, C 1600 To C 1700, Educational: English Literature, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights