Shakespeare and Audience in Practice

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

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)