Article: Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance.(Review)

Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance. By W. B. Worthen. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

For more than a decade, W. B. Worthen has been mapping the paradigm shifts in "stage-centered" Shakespeare criticism and its intersection with performance practice. Now Worthen has drawn together several of his published articles and book reviews and knit them into a book-length polemic about the scholarly and theatrical discourses that govern both performance and scholarship. The thesis of Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance is compelling in its simplicity: both performance practice and performance criticism (or, more accurately, the ...

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