Shakespeare, technicity, theatre / W. B. Worthen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worthen, William B., 1955- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--1950-.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations.

Performing arts--Technological innovations.

Performing arts.

Technology and the arts.

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Theater.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 271 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"This urgent and provocative study explores contemporary Shakespeare performance to bring a sense of theatre as technology into view. Rather than merely using technologies, the theatre's distinctively intermedial character is essential to its complex technicity; the changing function of gesture and costume, of written documents in the making of performance, of light and sound, and of the interplay of live and recorded acting complicate the sense of theatre as a medium. In a series of probing discussions, Worthen interrogates the interaction of live and mediated acting onstage, the impact of written media from the handwritten scroll to the small-screen app in acting as a technē, the work of Original Practices as an interactive modern theatre technology, the economies of theatrical immersion, and the consequences of an emerging algorithmic theatre, providing a richly theoretical reading of the stakes of theatre as an always-emerging technology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Theatre, Medium, Technology

2. The Face, the Mask, the Screen: Acting and the Technologies of the Other

3. Shax the App

4. Interactive Remediation: Original Practices

5. Designing the Spectator

6. And Or And Not: Recoding Theatre.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Worthen, W. B., Shakespeare, technicity, theatre

ISBN:

9781108498135

1108498132

9781108703048

1108703046

OCLC:

1113875691