How do our ideas about Shakespeare inform our understanding of the
limits of performance? This stimulating book asks how both text and
performance are construed as vessels of authority. The author 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 directing, acting, and scholarship. He considers
how some prominent theatre directors articulate their role as
regisseur under the sign of Shakespeare. Next he looks at how
actors read Shakespeare's plays, and in the final chapter he
inspects performance-oriented criticism of Shakespeare since the
1960s. This undogmatic and exploratory book contributes to the
scholarly study of acting and directing, and to the wider discourse
of performance studies.
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