The Idea of the Actor (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Worthen, William B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 069106623X ISBN 13: 9780691066233

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1984

Synopsis

Analyzing the relationship between dramatic action and the controversial art of acting, William Worthen demonstrates that what it means to act, to be an actor, and to communicate through acting embodies both an ethics of acting and a poetics of drama.

Originally published in 1984.

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About this title

About the Author

W. B. Worthen is the author of many books on drama, performance theory, and Shakespeare, including The Idea of the Actor (1984), Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (1992), Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (Cambridge, 1997), Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance (Cambridge, 2003), Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama (Cambridge, 2005) and Drama: Between Poetry and Performance (2010). He has edited and co-edited several volumes of drama and theatre scholarship, and has served as an editor of Theatre Journal and Modern Drama, guest editor of Renaissance Drama, and is the editor of The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 069106623X
• ISBN 13: 9780691066233
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 280