Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance »

W. B. Worthen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Idea of the Actor: Drama and the Ethics of Performance (1984), Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (1992), Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (Cambridge, 1997), and of a wide range of articles on drama and performance in major journals.

This book analyses how Shakespeare is recreated in historical performance.

Introduction: dramatic performativity and the force of performance;

1. Performing history;
2. Globe performativity;
3. Shakespearean geographies;
4. Cyber-performance.