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Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance

Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance

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ISBN10: 0521558999
ISBN13: 9780521558990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 25 1997
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.67 Width: 8.88 Depth: 6.58
Language: English
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 the scholarly study of acting and directing, and to the wider discourse of performance studies.

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