Title: Shakespeare, theory, and performance /
Authors: Bulman, James C., 1947-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, Dramatic production.; Shakespeare, William, Stage history.; Shakespeare, William, Criticism, Textual.; Theater audiences.
Abstract: This collection of essays brings a full range of contemporary critical perspectives to bear upon the practical questions of performing Shakespeare. It will be of particular interest to students and teachers of theatre and literary theory.
Contents: Introduction : Shakespeare and performance theory / James C. Bulman -- Staging "Shakespeare" : acting, authority, and the rhetoric of performance / W.B. Worthen -- Performance, and participation : Desdemona, Foucault, and the actor's body / Anthony B. Dawson -- Squeaking Cleopatras : gender and performance in Antony and Cleopatra / Juliet Dusinberre -- Looking for Mr. Shakespeare after "the revolution" : Robert Lepage's intercultural dream machine / Barbara Hodgdon -- Shakespeare, voice, and ideology : interrogating the natural voice / Richard Paul Knowles -- Acting Shakespeare in postcolonial space / Denis Salter -- Shakespeare without his language / Dennis Kennedy -- Historicizing Alan Dressen : scholarship, stagecraft, and the "Shakespeare revolution" / Cary M. Mazer -- Rethinking the performance editions : theatrical and textual productions of Shakespeare / Laurie E. Osborne -- Drowning the book : Prospero's books and the textual Shakespeare / Douglas Lanier.