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.
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 theat...
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.
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 theat...
What are the political dimensions of Shakespeare's plays in performance? Hartley reveals the unspoken politics of Shakespeare's plays on stage, examining their nature, agenda, limits and potential. In doing so, he highlights a more consciously political approach to making theatre out of Shakespeare's scripts - and to experiencing it as an audience.
What are the political dimensions of Shakespeare's plays in performance? Hartley reveals the unspoken politics of Shakespeare's plays on stage, exa...
What are the political dimensions of Shakespeare's plays in performance? Hartley reveals the unspoken politics of Shakespeare's plays on stage, examining their nature, agenda, limits and potential. In doing so, he highlights a more consciously political approach to making theatre out of Shakespeare's scripts - and to experiencing it as an audience.
What are the political dimensions of Shakespeare's plays in performance? Hartley reveals the unspoken politics of Shakespeare's plays on stage, exa...
This book explores theoretical and practical approaches to performing gender in contemporary Shakespeare productions. It focuses on contemporary practice, looking at how it is responding to a new cultural politics of gender and creating a critical language for understanding the performing of gender in the staging of Shakespeare's plays.
This book explores theoretical and practical approaches to performing gender in contemporary Shakespeare productions. It focuses on contemporary pr...
This book explores theoretical and practical approaches to performing gender in contemporary Shakespeare productions. It focuses on contemporary practice, looking at how it is responding to a new cultural politics of gender and creating a critical language for understanding the performing of gender in the staging of Shakespeare's plays.
This book explores theoretical and practical approaches to performing gender in contemporary Shakespeare productions. It focuses on contemporary pr...
When directors approach Shakespeare, is the play always the thing - or might something else sometimes be the thing? How can directing produce fresh contexts for Shakespeare's work?
When directors approach Shakespeare, is the play always the thing - or might something else sometimes be the thing? How can directing produce fresh co...
When directors approach Shakespeare, is the play always the thing - or might something else sometimes be the thing? How can directing produce fresh contexts for Shakespeare's work?
When directors approach Shakespeare, is the play always the thing - or might something else sometimes be the thing? How can directing produce fresh co...
