W. B. Worthen

1.7k total citations
46 papers, 524 citations indexed

About

W. B. Worthen is a scholar working on Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Literature and Literary Theory and Music. According to data from OpenAlex, W. B. Worthen has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 524 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts, 23 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 6 papers in Music. Recurrent topics in W. B. Worthen's work include Theatre and Performance Studies (31 papers), Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (18 papers) and Theater, Performance, and Music History (5 papers). W. B. Worthen is often cited by papers focused on Theatre and Performance Studies (31 papers), Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (18 papers) and Theater, Performance, and Music History (5 papers). W. B. Worthen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. W. B. Worthen's co-authors include Jane McGonigal, Peter Holland, Una Chaudhuri, Joanne Tompkins, Ric Knowles, Ruby Cohn, Samuel Beckett, Marvin Carlson, Paul Hernadi and Shannon Jackson and has published in prestigious journals such as Poetics Today, Sixteenth Century Journal and PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America.

In The Last Decade

W. B. Worthen

36 papers receiving 269 citations

Peers

W. B. Worthen
Keir Elam United Kingdom
Philip Rosen United States
Thomas Y. Levin United States
Mladen Dolar Slovenia
Celia Britton United Kingdom
Bonnie Marranca United States
Richard Leppert South Korea
Gertrude Stein United States
D. N. Rodowick United Kingdom
Garrett Stewart United States
Keir Elam United Kingdom
W. B. Worthen
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Countries citing papers authored by W. B. Worthen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. B. Worthen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Worthen, W. B.. (2021). Zoom; or, Obsolescence. TDR/The Drama Review. 65(3). 181–200. 4 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (2017). Interactive, Immersive, Original Shakespeare. Shakespeare bulletin. 35(3). 407–424. 5 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (2014). Shakespeare Performance Studies. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 17 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (2012). "The written troubles of the brain": Sleep No More and the Space of Character. Theatre Journal. 64(1). 79–97. 18 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B., et al.. (2006). This might be a game: ubiquitous play and performance at the turn of the twenty-first century. 53 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (2004). Acting, Singing, Dancing, and So Forth: Theatre (Research) in the University. Theatre Survey. 45(2). 263–269. 1 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B. & Peter Holland. (2003). Theorizing practice : redefining theatre history. Palgrave Macmillan eBooks. 20 indexed citations
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Knowles, Ric, Joanne Tompkins, & W. B. Worthen. (2003). Modern Drama. University of Toronto Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (2003). Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 27 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (1999). Our Moonlight Revels: A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Theatre. Theatre Journal. 51(1). 92–94.
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Worthen, W. B.. (1998). Shakespeare and Postmodern Production: An Introduction. Theatre Survey. 39(1). 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (1997). Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 32 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (1997). Staging America: The Subject of History in Chicano/a Theatre. Theatre Journal. 49(2). 101–120. 7 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (1995). Modern drama : plays, criticism, theory. 5 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (1995). The Harcourt Brace Anthology of Drama. 7 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (1995). Disciplines of the Text/Sites of Performance. TDR/The Drama Review. 39(1). 13–13. 31 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (1994). Of Actors and Automata: Hieroglyphics of Modernism. Latin American Theatre Review (The University of Kansas). 9(1). 3–20. 1 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B., et al.. (1985). Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment. Theatre Journal. 37(4). 514–514. 8 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (1984). The Idea of the Actor. Princeton University Press eBooks. 15 indexed citations
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Worthen, W. B.. (1984). The idea of the actor : drama and the ethics of performance. Princeton University Press eBooks. 21 indexed citations

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