Shakespeare, spectatorship and the technologies of performance / Pascale Aebischer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aebischer, Pascale, 1970- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--21st century.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Theater--Production and direction--Technological innovations.

Theater.

Theater audiences--Effect of technological innovations on.

Theater audiences.

Technology and the arts.

Physical Description:

xv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Shakespeare, Spectatorship and Technologies of Performance examines how rapid changes in performance technologies affect modes of spectatorship for early modern drama. It argues that seemingly disparate developments - such as the revival of early modern architectural and lighting technologies, digital performance technologies and the hybrid medium of theatre broadcast - are fundamentally related. How spectators experience performances is not only affected in medium-specific ways by particular technologies, but is also connected to the plays' roots in early modern performance environments. Aebischer's examples range from the use of candlelight and re-imagined early modern architecture, to set design, performance capture technologies, digital video, social media, hologram projection, biotechnologies and theatre broadcasts. This book argues that digital and analogue performance technologies alike activate modes of ethical spectatorship, requiring audiences to adopt an ethical standpoint as they decide how to look, where to look, what medium to look through, and how to take responsibility for looking"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Dominic Dromgoole's The changeling (2015) : social division and anamorphic vision

Dominic Dromgoole's The tempest (2016) : labour, technology and the gender of theatrical magic

Stanislavski in the closet : Joe Hill-Gibbins' Edward II (National Theatre, 2013)

'Tech-enabled' theatre at the RSC : digital performance and Gregory Doran's Tempest (RSC, 2016)

Hamlet in parts : Robin Lough's RSC live cinema broadcast of Simon Godwin's Hamlet (8 June 2016)

Offstage dynamics and the virtual public sphere in Cheek by jowl's live stream of Measure for measure (2015)

Concluding most obscenely: Offstage technophelias.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Aebischer, Pascale, 1970- Shakespeare, spectatorship and the technologies of performance.

ISBN:

9781108420488

1108420486

9781108430357

110843035X

OCLC:

1132236186