Early modern spectatorship : interpreting English culture, 1500-1780 / edited by Ronald Huebert and David McNeil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Alec Harris & Carollina Song Fund.

Huebert, Ronald, editor.

McNeil, David, 1955- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts audiences.

History.

Performing arts--Audiences.

England--Civilization.

England.

Civilization.

Performing arts--Audiences--England--History.

Performing arts.

Arts audiences--England--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"What did it mean to be a spectator during the lifetime of Shakespeare or of Aphra Behn? In Early Modern Spectatorship contributors use the idea of spectatorship to reinterpret canonical early modern texts and bring visibility to relatively unknown works. While many early modern spectacles were designed to influence those who watched, the very presence of spectators and their behaviour could alter the conduct and the meaning of the event itself. In the case of public executions, for example, audiences could both observe and be observed by the executioner and the condemned. Drawing on work in the digital humanities and theories of cultural spectacle, these essays discuss subjects as various as the death of Desdemona in Othello, John Donne's religious orientation, Ned Ward's descriptions of London, and Louis Laguerre's murals painted for the residences of English aristocrats. A lucid exploration of subtle questions, Early Modern Spectatorship identifies, imagines, and describes the spectator's experience in early modern culture."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Early Modern Spectatorship: An Overview / Ronald Huebert and David McNeil

Making Spectacles: Spectatorship and Authority on the Early Modern Stage / Nova Myhill

"Shame's pure blush": Shakespeare and the Ethics of Spectatorship / William W.E. Slights

Spectatorship and Repression in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night / Ian McAdam

"Most grateful deceptions of the sight": Optical Technologies in Restoration England / Emily M. West

Dying in Earnest: Public Executions and Their Audiences / Ronald Huebert and David McNeil

Looking at John Donne Looking at God / Ronald Huebert

Sidney Visualized: Thomas Lant's Sequitur celebritas (1588) and the Funeral Construction of an English National Hero / Rick Bowers

"Watching the Watchers": The Spectatorship Game in Ned Ward's The London Spy / David McNeil

Prospect Views: Landscapes, Knowledge, and Political Spectatorship in the Eighteenth Century / Frans de Bruyn

A Case Study on Spectatorship and the Visual Arts: Democritus and Heraclitus / John Lepage

Spectacle and the Chronotope of Progress in William Hogarth's London / Allison Muri

Mural Painting and Spectatorship in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain / Lydia Hamlett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-397) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alec Harris & Carollina Song Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Early modern spectatorship.

ISBN:

9780773556775

077355677X

9780773556768

0773556761

OCLC:

1065887134