Shakespeare Without Print

by Paul Menzer

Everything we know about Shakespeare - his world, his words, his work - is preconceived by print. This knowledge extends to cultural expressions that seek to evade ink, paper, and moveable type, such as performance, such as acting. Print privileges qualities quite alien to performance, however: standardization, reproducibility, and, above all, uniformity. Thus the master tropes of print occlude rather than clarify our thinking about acting. How might...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 100920422X
• ISBN13: 9781009204224
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 7.0"