Viral Shakespeare : performance in the time of pandemic / Pascale Aebischer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aebischer, Pascale, 1970- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare performance, 2516-0117.

Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare performance, 2516-0117

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. The first section of the Element explores how Shakespeare 'went viral' during the first lockdown of 2020 and considers how the archival recordings of Shakespeare productions made freely available by theatres across Europe and North America impacted on modes of spectatorship and viewing practices, with a particular focus on the effect of binge-watching Hamlet in lockdown. The Element's second section documents two made-for-digital productions of Shakespeare by Oxford-based Creation Theatre and Northern Irish Big Telly, two companies who became leaders in digital theatre during the pandemic. It investigates how their productions of The Tempest and Macbeth modelled new platform-specific ways of engaging with audiences and creating communities of viewing at a time when, in the UK, government policies were excluding most non-building-based theatre companies and freelancers from pandemic relief packages.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Dec 2021).

ISBN:

9781108952385

1108952380

9781108952187

1108952186

9781108943482

1108943489

OCLC:

1492995729