Imaginary Audition: Shakespeare on Stage and Page

by Harry Berger

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"Imaginary Audition" responds to a major current conflict in Shakespeare studies between proponents of close reading of the academic armchair variety and proponents of what is called theater-centered (or performance-centered) interpretation. This conflict has come into focus at the intersection of several lines of reaction to the New-Critical and poetic-drama approaches practiced during the middle decades of the century: the revival of the "theater-centered" criticism that has flourished since the 60s; the rise of metatheatrical and metapoetic criticism in the same period; new developments in psychoanalysis and gender-theoretical criticism; new approaches to textual scholarship and editing; and the reorientation...Read more
  • ISBN10 0520073061
  • ISBN13 9780520073067
  • Publish Date 26 December 1990 (first published 13 June 1989)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 12 November 2006
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 193
  • Language English