Books written by W. B. Worthen
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Shakespeare Performance Studies
As Joseph Quincy Adams pointed out at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1932, public education expanded just as “the forces of immigration became a menace to the preservation of our long-established English civilization,” situating ...
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A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance
Despite the pervasive consequences of the rise of print on the practice of theatre, and on our understanding of theatre relative ... where skills are taught and transmitted not through reading and writing but through personal training; ...
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Shakespeare Performance Studies
Rather than taking Shakespeare Performance Studies as a linear declension – studying, in other words, how performance reproduces Shakespeare – I ask instead how contemporary theatre practice might provide the means for seizing ...
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Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama
A study into the way in which modern dramatic printed texts relate to their performance.
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Drama: Between Poetry and Performance
This book will appeal both to the professional and academic audience in drama and performance studies, as well as to a wider audience of theatregoers interested in the relationship between writing and performance.
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Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre
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 ...
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Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance
of Shakespearean writing that it is impossible to disentangle Shakespeare's “ singular creative agency ” from such “ derivative forms of participation ... Lope de Vega's , Shakespeare's was very different from Jonson's or Middleton's .
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Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater
. The first study of modern drama that takes the implicit or explicit presence of the audience into constant consideration."—Simon Williams, author of Shakespeare and the German Stage “Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater is a book ...
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Theatre, Technicity, Shakespeare
Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.