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
His academic career has been international in scope, ranging from Michigan to Pittsburgh to Ireland, where he was Beckett Professor of Drama 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
Books by Kennedy include:
- Kennedy, Dennis, ed. (2010). The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance. 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.
- 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. 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. .
- 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.
- 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. S2CID 161271548.
- 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.
- Kennedy, Dennis (1989). Granville Barker and the Dream of Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-37996-0.
References
- Project MUSE 394602.
- S2CID 162764325.
- .
- ^ 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.
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