Shakespeare and the Imprints of Performance

ISBN-13: 9781349493937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 226 str.

J. Gavin Paul

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"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)

Spis treści

Prologue: Prospero's Storm 1. Mediating Page and Stage 2. Text and Performance on the Early Modern Page 3. Performance and the Editorial Tradition 4. Performance Commentary: Writing in the Sand 5. The Critical Edition as Archive Epilogue: Prospero's Bands

O autorze

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.