W. B. Worthen (Columbia University Barnard College)

Broschiertes Buch

Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre

Beschreibung

Theatre has always been technological. This book explores the technicity of theatre, its changing work as an intermedial technology, focusing on distinctive modes of contemporary Shakespeare performance. Tracing live, mediated, and digitally-inflected performances, this book will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare and theatre.

Autor

W. B. Worthen is Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts, and Chair of the Theatre Department at Barnard College. He is also co-chair of the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at Columbia University, New York, where he is appointed as Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books, 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, 2006), Drama: Between Poetry and Performance (2010), Shakespeare Performance Studies (Cambridge, 2014). He is the General Editor of the Elements in Shakespeare Performance book series.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781108703048
• ISBN-10: 1108703046
• Artikelnr.: 64102725