The Death of the Actor
Shakespeare on Page and Stage
List Price: $135.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-06148-3
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 12/12/1991
- Pages: 192
- Trim Size: 216X138
About the Book
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.You may also be interested in:
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