Description
The Antitheatrical Prejudice is essential reading today when theatricality, antitheatricality, and performativity are once again provocative issues playing out across contemporary culture and the arts. The original edition was published in 1981. The new edition includes a Foreword by Joseph Roach, the distinguished theatre historian and stage director, and professor emeritus, Dept. of English, Yale University. He is the author of The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting and Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance.
Author: Jonas Barish
Publisher: PAJ Publications
Published: 11/19/2024
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.15d
ISBN13: 9781555541682
ISBN10: 1555541682
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater | History & Criticism
About the Author
Jonas Barish (1922-1998) was a distinguished theatre historian and authority on Ben Jonson and Shakespeare. He taught at the University of California. A leading scholar of his generation, Barish was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.