Matthew Wagner is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Surrey. He has written on the phenomenology of time and space in performance, specifically in the theatre of Shakespeare and Beckett.

'Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time flawlessly leads the reader from concept to concept, from theory to text and back. It is literary scholarship at its best, highly readable and informative and makes the reader do what all good secondary literature should do: go and read the primary texts again (or better: go and see the plays again) and experience what has been written about at first hand.' - Michael Heinze, www.theaterforschung.de

• Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements 1: First Breath: An Introduction 2: Time and Theatre 3: The Bodies of Time 4: Time and the Play 5: Time and the Contemporary Shakespearean Stage 6: Final Words: An Ending Notes Bibliography Index

Matthew Wagner is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Surrey. He has written on the phenomenology of time and space in performance, specifically in the theatre of Shakespeare and Beckett.

'Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time flawlessly leads the reader from concept to concept, from theory to text and back. It is literary scholarship at its best, highly readable and informative and makes the reader do what all good secondary literature should do: go and read the primary texts again (or better: go and see the plays again) and experience what has been written about at first hand.' - Michael Heinze, www.theaterforschung.de

• Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements 1: First Breath: An Introduction 2: Time and Theatre 3: The Bodies of Time 4: Time and the Play 5: Time and the Contemporary Shakespearean Stage 6: Final Words: An Ending Notes Bibliography Index

Matthew Wagner is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Surrey. He has written on the phenomenology of time and space in performance, specifically in the theatre of Shakespeare and Beckett.

'Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time flawlessly leads the reader from concept to concept, from theory to text and back. It is literary scholarship at its best, highly readable and informative and makes the reader do what all good secondary literature should do: go and read the primary texts again (or better: go and see the plays again) and experience what has been written about at first hand.' - Michael Heinze, www.theaterforschung.de

• Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements 1: First Breath: An Introduction 2: Time and Theatre 3: The Bodies of Time 4: Time and the Play 5: Time and the Contemporary Shakespearean Stage 6: Final Words: An Ending Notes Bibliography Index