Reading Performance: Spanish Golden-Age Theatre, Fischer^+

Reading Performance: Spanish Golden-Age Theatre and Shakespeare on the Modern StageAuthor(s): Susan L Fischer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Tamesis Books\nISBN-13: 9781855661813, 978-1855661813\nSynopsis\nSpanish Golden-Age plays take their place at the forefront of world theatre.\n\nOscar 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 of a larger theoretical inquiry into performance as interpretation, contingent upon the cultural context. Engaging with theoretical approaches to culture, and theoreticians from Elam to Brook, and from Derrida to Bakhtin, the author analyzes in detail productions of plays by Lope de Vega, Tirso.