“What’s past is prologue”: negotiating the authority of tense in reviewing Shakespeare

This paper, rooted in reviewing practice, engages with a little-discussed practical aspect of reviewing: the tense in which a theatre review is written. Noting that journalistic reviews use the present tense, whereas academic reviews use the past, this paper asks when a review moves into the past, a...

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Main Author: Kirwan, Peter
Format: Article
Published: Taylor and Francis 2010
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37575/