The Death of the Actor: Shakespeare on Page and Stage

The Death of the Actor: Shakespeare on Page and Stage
ISBN-10
1136120688
ISBN-13
9781136120688
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
180
Language
English
Published
2013-10-31
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Martin Buzacott

Description

In The Death of the Actor Martin Buzacott launches an all-out attack on contemporary theatrical practice and performance theory which identifies the actor, rather than the director, as the key creative force in the performance of Shakespeare. Because actors are absent from the site of Shakespearean meaning, he argues, the illusion of their centrality is sustained only by a rhetoric of heroism, violence and imperialism.

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