Shakespeare's audiences / edited by Matteo Pangallo and Peter Kirwan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pangallo, Matteo A., editor.

Kirwan, Peter, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in Shakespeare.

Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history.

Theater audiences--Psychology.

Theater audiences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

"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 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. 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 as well as a broader understanding of the various, often complex, connections between and among those audiences across the long history of Shakespearean performance"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Respiratory sympathy and pneumatic community in Shakespeare / Stephanie Shirilan

Recovering the humoral body through original practice performance / Joe Falocco

Haptic experience and fluid boundaries : Macbeth and Czech nationalism at Český Krumlov's Revolving Theater / Jennifer A. Low

The most lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus and audiences from the Inns of Court / Romola Nuttall

'Cleave the general ear' : Shakespeare and the cultural bias of early American radio / Miles Drawdy

Indian Shakespeare cinema and the active audience / Koel Chatterjee

Gender, aura, and the close-up : broadcasting Shakespeare for female audiences / Pascale Aebischer

Shakespeare's riotous audiences : Macbeth at Astor Place, 1849 / Edel Lamb

'How novelty may move' : play and the boundaries of the play in the New York Shakespeare Festival's Mobile Theatre / Adam Sheaffer

Imagined theater : why fan audiences matter / Louise Geddes

'A vulgar comment will be made of it' : YouTube and Robert Weimann's Platea / Valerie M. Fazel

Shakespeare's digital school audience : agency and control in the reception of an RSC Schools' Broadcast / Rachael Nicholas

For everybody : casting, race, and audience engagement in the Public Theater's Mobile Unit.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-315253-8

1-003-15253-8

1-000-35253-6

9781003152538

OCLC:

1202730373