The Performer: Art, Life, Politics
Author: Richard Sennett
Publisher: Allen Lane
Pages: 256
Price: Rs 1,396
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” If we start looking at ourselves as characters who perform, and observe where the stage is, a lot more can start to make sense. Richard Sennett in the book The Performer: Art, Life, Politics borrows the observation Shakespeare’s character “the melancholy Jaques” makes in the play As you Like It, to knit a thread of what a performance is across the thread of what the stage to perform looks like. The many knits finally turn