Performing Texts

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction The Mystery of the Play Experience: Quince’s Questions Self-Referring Artifacts Much Ado About Doing Things With Words (and Other Means): Some Problems in the Pragmatics of Theatre and Drama Stage Codes Decoding Mnouchkine’s Shakespeare (A Grammar of Stage Signs) From Text to Performance A Medieval Prescription for Performance: Le Jeu d’Adam Performance Orientations in Ritual Theatre Postscript or Pinch of Salt: Performance as Mediation or Deconstruction Bibliography Contributors Index