书目名称 | Shakespeare and the Imprints of Performance |
编辑 | J. Gavin Paul |
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概述 | Examines how textual distortions enrich a play‘s performance possibilities.Explores how the term performancescape can re-negotiate the page/stage polarity.Features analysis of performance commentary, |
丛书名称 | History of Text Technologies |
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描述 | .Within the study of drama, the question of how to relate text and performance—and what interpretive tools are best suited to analyzing them—is a longstanding and contentious one. Most scholars agree that reading a printed play is a means of dramatic realization absolutely unlike live performance, but everything else beyond this premise is contestable: how much authority to assign to playwrights, the extent to which texts and readings determine performance, and the capability of printed plays to communicate the possibilities of performance. Without denying that printed plays distort and fragment performance practice, this book negotiates an intractable debate by shifting attention to the ways in which these inevitable distortions can nevertheless enrich a reader‘s awareness of a play‘s performance potentialities. As author J. Gavin Paul demonstrates, printed plays can be more meaningfully engaged with actual performance than is typically assumed, via specific editorial principles andstrategies. Focusing on the long history of Shakespearean editing, he develops the concept of the .performancescape.: a textual representation of performance potential that gives relative shape and stab |
出版日期 | Book 2014 |
关键词 | Shakespeare performance history; early modern theatre; Shakespearean performance criticism; Shakespeare |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137438447 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-349-49393-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-43844-7Series ISSN 2945-7157 Series E-ISSN 2945-7165 |
issn_series | 2945-7157 |
copyright | Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014 |