Lois Potter: Shakespeare and the Actor (Oxford Shakespeare Topics). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
As a shrewd, critically observant, and thoughtful spectator, whose reviews and commentaries (mainly) on the British stage have enlivened professional scholarship on Shakespeare performance for decades, Lois Potter is ideally situated to write a book like Shakespeare and the Actor: rather than a “history of Shakespearian acting,” this “is a study of what the dramatist and the actor owe to each other” (p. vii). Despite Potter’s sense that “Shakespearian actor” is a potentially misleading term – from the early modern period onward, actors remembered now for their association with Shakespearian roles were often just as successful in other parts (David Garrick’s Abel Drugger comes to mind) – this book explicitly locates theatre and the practices of acting, directing, spectating, in relation to a fundamentally literary phenomenon, the cultural authority located in Shakespeare-as-literature.
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1866-5381.2023.01.27 |
Lizenz: | ESV-Lizenz |
ISSN: | 1866-5381 |
Ausgabe / Jahr: | 1 / 2023 |
Veröffentlicht: | 2023-05-26 |