Description
Product ID: | 9780367715489 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Routledge Studies in Shakespeare |
Title: | Shakespeare’s Audiences |
Authors: | Author: Matteo Pangallo, Peter Kirwan |
Page Count: | 234 |
Subjects: | Plays, playscripts, Plays, playscripts, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary theory, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Shakespeare plays, Literary theory, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare studies & criticism, English |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The essays in this collection use a variety of methods and approaches to explore the global history of audience experience of Shakespearean performance in theater, film, radio, and digital media. Shakespeare wrote for a theater in which the audience was understood to be, and at times invited to be, active and participatory. How have Shakespeare’s audiences, from the sixteenth century to the present, responded to that invitation? In what ways have consumers across different cultural contexts, periods, and platforms engaged with the performance of Shakespeare’s plays? What are some of the different approaches taken by scholars today in thinking about the role of Shakespeare''s audiences and their relationship to performance? The chapters in this collection use a variety of methods and approaches to explore the global history of audience experience of Shakespearean performance in theater, film, radio, and digital media. The approaches that these contributors take look at Shakespeare’s audiences through a variety of lenses, including theater history, dramaturgy, film studies, fan studies, popular culture, and performance. Together, they provide both close studies of particular moments in the history of Shakespeare’s audiences and a broader understanding of the various, often complex, connections between and among those audiences across the long history of Shakespearean performance. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-09-26 |