Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre

by Robert Weimann

Book Overview

Robert Weimann redefines the relationship between writing and performance, or playing, in Shakespeare's theater. 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 theater, performance theory, and film and video interpretation, and offers a new approach...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521787351
• ISBN13: 9780521787352
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"