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J. Paul - Shakespeare and the Imprints of Performance - 9781349493937 - V9781349493937
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Shakespeare and the Imprints of Performance

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Description for Shakespeare and the Imprints of Performance Paperback. Most scholars agree that reading a play is absolutely unlike live performance, but everything else about their relationship beyond this premise has proven contestable. Focusing on the editorial and textual history of Shakespeare, this book navigates these debates by exploring how textual distortions enrich a play's performance potentialities. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DS; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .

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 ... Read more


 

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Series
History of Text Technologies
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349493937
SKU
V9781349493937
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99-15

About J. Paul
J. Gavin Paul is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His work has appeared in Shakespeare: The Journal of the British Shakespeare Association, The Review of English Studies, and other publications, and his doctoral dissertation won the prestigious J. Leeds Barroll Prize from the Shakespeare Association of America in 2009.

Reviews for Shakespeare and the Imprints of Performance
“Shakespeare and the Imprints of Performance is scholarly and nicely conscientious. Paul engages thoroughly with a wide range of critics, perhaps sometimes with a slight PhD dutifulness. … He has written a book of real interest and insight, which, appropriately, reveals its own intellectual imprints and gives scope for further interpretative scholarship.” (Emma Smith, Shakespeare, 2016)

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