Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre

Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre
Title Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre PDF eBook
Author William B. Worthen
Publisher
Pages
Release 2020
Genre Film adaptations
ISBN 9781108628464

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Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre

Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre
Title Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre PDF eBook
Author W. B. Worthen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 0
Release 2022-08-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781108703048

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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.

Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre

Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre
Title Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre PDF eBook
Author W. B. Worthen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 281
Release 2020-04-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1108571433

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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.

Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance

Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance
Title Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance PDF eBook
Author Pascale Aebischer
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 259
Release 2020-04-30
Genre Drama
ISBN 1108420486

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Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance
Title The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance PDF eBook
Author James C. Bulman
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 705
Release 2017
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0199687161

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The series statement "Oxford handbooks to Shakespeare" taken from dust jacket.

Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance

Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance
Title Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance PDF eBook
Author William B. Worthen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 272
Release 1997-09-25
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780521558990

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How the idea of Shakespearean authority is still invested in the activities of directing, acting, and scholarship.

Mental Traveler

Mental Traveler
Title Mental Traveler PDF eBook
Author W. J. T. Mitchell
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 189
Release 2020-09-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 022669609X

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How does a parent make sense of a child’s severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry? W. J. T. Mitchell’s memoir tells the story—at once representative and unique—of one family’s encounter with mental illness and bears witness to the life of the talented young man who was his son. Gabriel Mitchell was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age twenty-one and died by suicide eighteen years later. He left behind a remarkable archive of creative work and a father determined to honor his son’s attempts to conquer his own illness. Before his death, Gabe had been working on a film that would show madness from inside and out, as media stereotype and spectacle, symptom and stigma, malady and minority status, disability and gateway to insight. He was convinced that madness is an extreme form of subjective experience that we all endure at some point in our lives, whether in moments of ecstasy or melancholy, or in the enduring trauma of a broken heart. Gabe’s declared ambition was to transform schizophrenia from a death sentence to a learning experience, and madness from a curse to a critical perspective. Shot through with love and pain, Mental Traveler shows how Gabe drew his father into his quest for enlightenment within madness. It is a book that will touch anyone struggling to cope with mental illness, and especially for parents and caregivers of those caught in its grasp.