Author's Pen and Actor's Voice Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre |
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Author:
| Weimann, Robert |
Editor:
| Higbee, Helen West, William |
Contribution by:
| Barton, Anne Dollimore, Jonathan Garber, Marjorie Goldberg, Jonathan Holland, Peter McLuskie, Kate Orgel, Stephen Vickers, Nancy |
Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-78735-2 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2000 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $66.95 |
Book Description:
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Robert Weimann redefines the relationship between writing and performance, or 'playing', in Shakespeare's theatre. Through close reading and careful analysis Weimann offers a reconsideration and redefinition of Elizabethan performance and production practices. The study reviews the most recent methodologies of textual scholarship, the new history of the Elizabethan theatre, performance theory, and film and video interpretation, and offers a new approach to understanding Shakespeare....
More DescriptionRobert Weimann redefines the relationship between writing and performance, or 'playing', in Shakespeare's theatre. Through close reading and careful analysis Weimann offers a reconsideration and redefinition of Elizabethan performance and production practices. The study reviews the most recent methodologies of textual scholarship, the new history of the Elizabethan theatre, performance theory, and film and video interpretation, and offers a new approach to understanding Shakespeare. Weimann examines a range of plays as well as other contemporary works. A major part of the study explores the duality between playing and writing.