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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 May 2020
      23 April 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108628464
      9781108498135
      9781108703048
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108628464
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 278 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, Drama and Theatre: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, Drama and Theatre: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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    Book description

    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 theatre as a medium. In a series of probing discussions, Worthen interrogates the interaction of live and mediated acting onstage, the impact of written media from the handwritten scroll to the small-screen app in acting as a technē, the work of Original Practices as an interactive modern theatre technology, the economies of theatrical immersion, and the consequences of an emerging algorithmic theatre, providing a richly theoretical reading of the stakes of theatre as an always-emerging technology.

    Reviews

    ‘Worthen’s book encompasses a dazzling variety of texts, performances, and productions and draws from various theories of theater as well as of technology … Worthen’s analysis suggests many exciting areas of exploration—not only about technologies of dramatic theater in particular, but also in any area where technologies assist in representation or the creation of meaning.’

    Sarah Kriger Source: Technology and Culture

    ‘Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre is a masterful book that, against all odds, reveals contemporary Shakespeare performance to be ground zero for any critical conversation about theater and technology.’

    Gina Bloom Source: Renaissance Drama

    ‘Worthen’s monograph provides a fresh examination of the various ways that performance involves technicity, which demarcate theater as an ever-emerging technology for performance studies and Shakespeare scholars. It embraces the techne of Shakespearean performance—including algorithms as a form of mimesis, digital applications as a medial element of theatricality, and recording—as sites of virtual intersection, through which performance powerfully affects cultural democracy and ethical obligations among its contemporary audiences.’

    Nikki Ruolo Source: Shakespeare Quarterly

    ‘W. B. Worthen’s latest book boldly argues for fundamental changes to how theatre scholars analyze the use of technology in theatre and performance…’

    Amy Borsuk Source: Theatre Journal

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