Dennis Kennedy (author)
Dennis Kennedy (born 1940, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States), is an author of books on theater and performance. He is also a playwright, director, and fiction writer. He holds dual citizenship in the USA and Ireland. His recent book on audiences, The Spectator and the Spectacle, was widely and positively reviewed.[1][2][3]
Career
[edit]His academic career has been international in scope, ranging from Michigan to Pittsburgh to Ireland, where he was Beckett Professor of Drama in Trinity College Dublin (1994-2006).[4] He is now emeritus professor and fellow at Trinity College Dublin.[4] He has also held numerous distinguished visiting positions in universities in Pakistan, Singapore, China, Canada, and the United States. He has twice been a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, twice won the TLA's George Freedley Memorial Award for Theater History,[5] and was elected to the Royal Irish Academy[6] and Academia Europaea.[7] His more than forty essays have appeared in wide-ranging publications. He has lectured around the world from London to Shanghai, and regularly gives workshops in acting Shakespeare.[8][9] His own plays have been performed in New York, London, and elsewhere. Recent productions he has directed on stage include As You Like It by William Shakespeare in Beijing, China and The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht in Dublin, Ireland.
His short stories appear in a number of literary journals, including Confrontation, New Letters, Underground Voices, Witness, War, Literature & the Arts and Drunken Boat.[10]
His daughter Miranda Kennedy is a journalist and author, and his twin daughters Jessica and Megan Kennedy are dancers who direct a dance-theater company in Dublin called Junk Ensemble.
Works
[edit]Books by Kennedy include:
- Kennedy, Dennis, ed. (2010). The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199574193.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-957419-3.
- Kennedy, Dennis; Lan, Yong Li (2010). Shakespeare in Asia: Contemporary Performance. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-51552-8.
- Review: Bishop, Tom (2012). "Shakespeare in Asia: Contemporary Performance (review)". Shakespeare Quarterly. 63 (2): 290–292. doi:10.1353/shq.2012.0024. S2CID 161965248. Project MUSE 484339.
- Review: Foley, Kathy (2011). "Shakespeare in Asia: Contemporary Performance (review)". Asian Theatre Journal. 28 (1): 269–272. doi:10.1353/atj.2011.0016. S2CID 162216641. Project MUSE 433494.
- Kennedy, Dennis (2009). The Spectator and the Spectacle: Audiences in Modernity and Postmodernity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-89976-5.
- Kennedy, Dennis (2003). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860174-6.
- Kennedy, Dennis (2002). Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-78057-5.
- Review: Shaw, Kate (1994). "Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance. By Dennis Kennedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xxiv + 358 + illus. £45; $69.95". Theatre Research International. 19 (2): 171–172. doi:10.1017/S0307883300019489. S2CID 161523916.
- Review: McMillin, Scott (May 1994). "Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performances. By Dennis Kennedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993; pp. 358. 150 illustrations, 21 color plates. $69.95 hardcover. - Bit Parts in Shakespeare's Plays. By M. M. Mahood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992; pp. 252. $59.95 hardcover". Theatre Survey. 35 (1): 139–142. doi:10.1017/S0040557400002611.
- Kennedy, Dennis (11 November 2004). Foreign Shakespeare: Contemporary Performance. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-61708-6.
- Review: Singleton, Brian (1995). "Foreign Shakespeare: Contemporary Performance. Edited by Dennis Kennedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xviii + 311 + illus. £35; $54.95". Theatre Research International. 20 (1): 71–72. doi:10.1017/S0307883300007252. S2CID 161271548.
- Kennedy, Dennis (1989). Granville Barker and the Dream of Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-37996-0.
References
[edit]- ^ Auslander, Philip (2010). "The Spectator and the Spectacle: Audiences in Modernity and Postmodernity (review)". Modern Drama. 53 (3): 421–423. doi:10.1353/mdr.2010.0004. S2CID 194092039. Project MUSE 394602.
- ^ Seamon, Mark (April 2012). "The Spectator and the Spectacle: Audiences in Modernity and Postmodernity. By Dennis Kennedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009; pp. x + 249. $98 cloth, $35.99 paper". Theatre Survey. 53 (1): 146–148. doi:10.1017/S0040557411000834. S2CID 162764325.
- ^ Nibbelink, Liesbeth Groot (March 2010). "The Spectator and the Spectacle: Audiences in Modernity and Postmodernity. By Dennis Kennedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 250 + 11 illus. £50/$99 Hb. - Modes of Spectating. Edited by Alison Oddey and Christine White. Bristol: Intellect, 2009. Pp. 266 + 40 illus. £19.95/$40 Pb". Theatre Research International. 35 (1): 88–90. doi:10.1017/S0307883309990514.
- ^ a b "Trinity College Dublin biography". People.tcd.ie. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ "TLA | George Freedley Memorial Award - Winners". Tla-online.org. 19 August 2012. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ "Royal Irish Academy | About | Membership | Members List". Ria.ie. Archived from the original on 1 January 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ "Academy of Europe: Kennedy Dennis". Ae-info.org. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ "The Culture of the Spectator - a lecture by Dennis Kennedy". Gw Memsi. 11 September 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ "International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures": Dennis Kennedy". Geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de. Archived from the original on 5 January 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ "Kennedy Drunken Boat story". Archived from the original on 12 November 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
