Shakespeare and the authority of performance /

Shakespeare and the authority of performance /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Worthen, William B., 1955-
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 255 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production. Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism, Textual. Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 Theater -- Production and direction. Acting. Acting. Theater. Theater -- Production and direction. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11113902

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ISBN:	0511005288 9780511005282 9780511583193 0511583192 9780521551342 052155134X 9780521558990 0521558999 052155134X 0521558999
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	How do our ideas about Shakespeare inform our understanding of the limits of performance? This stimulating book asks how both text and performance are construed as vessels of authority. The author finds that our understanding of Shakespearean performance retains a surprising sense of the possibility of being 'faithful' to Shakespearean texts, and so to 'Shakespeare'. After an opening theoretical chapter, Worthen examines the relationship between text and performance in directing, acting, and scholarship. He considers how some prominent theatre directors articulate their role as régisseur under the sign of Shakespeare. Next he looks at how actors read Shakespeare's plays, and in the final chapter he inspects performance-oriented criticism of Shakespeare since the 1960s. This undogmatic and exploratory book contributes to the scholarly study of acting and directing, and to the wider discourse of performance studies.
Other form:	Print version: Worthen, William B., 1955- Shakespeare and the authority of performance. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997 052155134X

Table of Contents:

1. Authority and performance
2. ShakespeareÆs auteurs: directing authority
3. ShakespeareÆs body: acting and the designs of authority;
4. ShakespeareÆs page, ShakespeareÆs stage: performance criticism