Reading Performance: Spanish Golden-Age Theatre and Shakespeare on the Modern Stage

by Susan L. Fischer

Spanish Golden-Age plays take their place at the forefront of world theatre.

Oscar Wilde once observed that it is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors'. This thought is borne out in this volume, which brings together two different and often mutually exclusive constituencies: the academic critic and the theatre practitioner. In looking at the ways in which theatre is a barometer of society, the essays in this book form part...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855661810
• ISBN13: 9781855661813
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"