Purcell Shakespeare and Audience in Practice

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-37525-4
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Reihe: Shakespeare in Practice

What do audiences do as they watch a Shakespearean play? What makes them respond in the ways that they do? This book examines a wide range of theatrical productions to explore the practice of being a modern Shakespearean audience. It surveys some of the most influential ideas about spectatorship in contemporary performance studies, and analyses the strategies employed both in the texts themselves and by modern theatre practitioners to position audiences in particular ways.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Purcell, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue.- PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. I, Malvolio and its Audiences: A Case Study.- PART II: IN THEORY 2. Making Sense of the Stage.- 3. Agency, Community and Modern Theatre Practice.- PART III: IN PRACTICE 4. Controlling the Audience?.- 5. Framing the Stage.- 6. Playing with the Audience.- 7. Immersion and Embodiment.- 8. Constructing the Audience.- PART IV: DEBATE AND PROVOCATION 9. Pocket Henry V: A Collaborative Debate.- Reading list.

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Purcell is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Warwick, UK. His research focuses on Shakespeare in contemporary performance and popular culture. His publications include Popular Shakespeare (2009) and The White Devil (2012) in The Shakespeare Handbooks series.