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Shakespeare and Audience in Practice "Purcell, Stephen"

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: ; Shakespeare in PracticePublication details: United Kingdom Palgrave Macmillan 26/11/2013Description: 216 PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780230364042
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.33 STE
Contents:
Shakespeare studies & criticism
Summary: "What do audiences do as they watch a Shakespeare play? What makes them respond in the ways that they do? Exploring the practice of being a modern Shakespearean audience, Stephen Purcell examines a wide range of theatrical productions, surveys some of the most influential ideas about spectatorship in contemporary performance studies, and analyses how both modern theatre practitioners and the play texts themselves position audiences in particular ways. Innovative and insightful, this book includes detailed case studies of two modern productions, a collaborative debate section, and suggestions for practical exercises and further reading."
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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.

Shakespeare studies & criticism

"What do audiences do as they watch a Shakespeare play? What makes them respond in the ways that they do? Exploring the practice of being a modern Shakespearean audience, Stephen Purcell examines a wide range of theatrical productions, surveys some of the most influential ideas about spectatorship in contemporary performance studies, and analyses how both modern theatre practitioners and the play texts themselves position audiences in particular ways. Innovative and insightful, this book includes detailed case studies of two modern productions, a collaborative debate section, and suggestions for practical exercises and further reading."

"Undergraduate; Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly"

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Illustrations (p. viii)
  • Acknowledgements (p. ix)
  • Series Editors' Preface (p. xi)
  • Prologue (p. xiii)
  • Part I Introduction
  • 1 I, Malvolio and Its Audiences: A Case Study (p. 3)
  • Part II In Theory
  • 2 Making Sense of the Stage (p. 27)
  • 3 Agency, Community, and Modern Theatre Practice (p. 43)
  • Part III In Practice
  • 4 Controlling the Audience? (p. 65)
  • 5 Framing the Stage (p. 74)
  • 6 Playing with the Audience (p. 94)
  • 7 Immersion and Embodiment (p. 128)
  • 8 Constructing the Audience (p. 147)
  • Part IV Debate and Provocation
  • 9 Pocket Henry V: A Collaborative Debate (p. 157)
  • Notes (p. 173)
  • Reading List (p. 177)
  • Index (p. 189)

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