Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre

by W.B. Worthen

This urgent and provocative study explores contemporary Shakespeare performance to bring a sense of theatre as technology into view. Rather than merely using technologies, the theatre's distinctively intermedial character is essential to its complex technicity; the changing function of gesture and costume, of written documents in the making of performance, of light and sound, and of the interplay of live and recorded acting complicate the sense of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108498132
• ISBN13: 9781108498135
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"