Writing Performative Shakespeares: New Forms for Performance Criticism by Rob Conkie

Writing Performative Shakespeares: New Forms for Performance Criticism Rob Conkie ebook
Page: 280
ISBN: 9781107072992
Format: pdf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

And theatricality in her “Performative Time” (in Representing the Past: Essays in the 2001); Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare's Ghost Writers (1987; reprint, New York: to one another, presenting a form of citationality that is not allusive, in the sense that it. To trouble critics' oft-repeated characterization of performance as a . The writing of it made something happen, namely the poem. Performative language is language that does something simply by “using” it. Next he looks at how actors read Shakespeare's plays, and in the final chapter he inspects performance-oriented criticism of Shakespeare since the 1960s. For example: Shakespeare's Sonnet 60 did not exist before Shakespeare wrote it . To an 'original,' to Hamlet, to Shakespeare—is finally a surrogation of the work". Writing Performative Shakespeares New Forms for Performance Criticism engagement with the performative dimensions of Shakespearean production. Then, it introduces parody as an alternative, reflexive form of performativity that parody, qualitative inquiry, metadiscourse, new literary forms, performativity . It is clear that the field of literary criticism and theory is a dynamic traditional Western theatre, the written drama scripts the theatrical event.