Introduction
Between Poetry and Performance
Published Online: 15 JAN 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317374.ch
Copyright © 2010 W. B. Worthen
Book Title
Drama: Between Poetry and Performance
Additional Information
How to Cite
Worthen, W. B. (2010) Introduction, in Drama: Between Poetry and Performance, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444317374.ch
Publication History
- Published Online: 15 JAN 2010
- Published Print: 18 DEC 2009
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405153416
Online ISBN: 9781444317374
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- between poetry and performance;
- Shakespeare's plays - changing cultural relationship between Western drama and complex technologies;
- Shakespeare plays for theatre and culture - transformation from orality to literacy;
- centrality of Shakespeare to English-language literary and theatre studies - drama in print culture;
- drama occupying a no-man's land between print, making of books, and social dissemination of literature;
- technologies of writing and performing – grasped metaphorically;
- information culture, asserting notion that material platform is irrelevant to information it displays;
- digital technology on print - undoing implied “information-logic” of print;
- Dramatic tools, performance technologies
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Shakespeare 3.0
Images of Writing/Metaphors of Performance
Agencies of Drama: Burke, Poetry, and Performance