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Informationen zum Autor W. B. Worthen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of The Idea of the Actor (1984), Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (1992), Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (Cambridge, 1997), and of Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance (Cambridge, 2003). He has served as the editor of Theatre Journal and as the coeditor of Modern Drama, and has published widely in professional journals. He is also the editor of the widely-used Wadsworth Anthology of Drama and of Modern Drama: Plays/Criticism/Theory, which won the 1995 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Research Award. Klappentext In Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama! W. B. Worthen asks how the print form of drama bears on how we understand its dual identity. Zusammenfassung The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing. In Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama! W. B. Worthen asks how the print form of drama bears on how we understand its dual identity - as play texts and in performance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: booking the play; 1. Prefixing the author or, As it was Plaide: Shakespeare, editing and the design of modern drama; 2. Accessory acts; 3. Something like poetry; Epilogue: whom the reader will remember; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
