Imaginary Audition: Shakespeare on Stage and Page

by Harry Berger Jr.

Book Overview

Imaginary Audition responds to a major current conflict in Shakespeare studies between proponents of close reading of the academic armchair variety and proponents of what is called theater-centered (or performance-centered) interpretation. This conflict has come into focus at the intersection of several lines of reaction to the New-Critical and poetic-drama approaches practiced during the middle decades of the century: the revival of the "theater-centered"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520065581
• ISBN13: 9780520065581
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.