Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance

by W.B. Worthen

Book Overview

This stimulating book asks how both text and performance are construed as vessels of authority, and 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 three activities: directing, acting, and scholarship. The book contributes to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521558999
• ISBN13: 9780521558990
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.9" x 6.6"