Shakespeare Without Print Menzer Paul
Shakespeare Without Print Menzer Paul Everything we know about Shakespeare - his world, his words, his work - is preconceived by print. Print privileges qualities quite alien to performance, however:…
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Shakespeare Without Print Menzer Paul
Everything we know about Shakespeare - his world, his words, his work - is preconceived by print. Print privileges qualities quite alien to performance, however: standardization, reproducibility, and, above all, uniformity. This knowledge extends to cultural expressions that seek to evade ink, paper, and moveable type, such as performance, such as acting.
How might we think about Shakespeare and performance without print? Thus the master tropes of print occlude rather than clarify our thinking about acting. Examining texts both early and modern, Shakespeare without Print contends that Shakespeare and performance has long been dominated by a medium alien to its expression, print, a foreign government that forecloses alternative conceptualizations and practices.
Through a series of discrete but linked excursions into the relationship between Shakespearean print and Shakespearean