1st Edition

The Death of the Actor Shakespeare on Page and Stage

By Martin Buzacott Copyright 1991
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    188 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Chapter 1 Bardolatry; Chapter 2 Terrorism; Chapter 3 The Stockholm Syndrome; Chapter 4 Violent Comedy; Chapter 5 The Romantics; Chapter 6 The Disinterested Imagination; Chapter 7 Death of the Actor;

    Biography

    Martin Buzacott