Reviews for Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience

The average rating for Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-13 00:00:00 John Thompson First book read for my MA and what a help! It gave me definitions, explanations and a general overview for textual studies - a subject I knew next to nothing about. Clear, well written and very helpful - it was written by my lecturer!

Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-24 00:00:00 Nathan Minnick I found Jowett's ability to describe conflicting viewpoints very refreshing. My experience of textual criticism so far has been primarily of highly dogmatic people insisting (even if they're postmodernists and theoretically against such black-and-white thinking) that all textual scholarship not in accord with their own is ignorant, misguided, and deeply harmful to the unsuspecting reader at the other end of the edition. Jowett obviously has his own biases and advocates his own opinions, but he is capable of presenting both sides of the question fairly and admitting that the truth is ultimately unknowable. We are highly unlikely, after all, ever to find a Shakespeare manuscript, so any prevailing theory is really just speculation.