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Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter)

Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance By Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter)

Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance by Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter)


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Rapid changes in performance technologies are changing how we view early modern drama. The book explores how candlelight and architecture make each spectator's viewing experience unique; how digital media alter viewers' interactions with live performances; and how theatre broadcasts fundamentally affect the reception of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance Summary

Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance by Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter)

Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the 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.

Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance Reviews

'This is a brilliant, timely and provocative work of criticism, and a delight to read. Pascale Aebischer is leading the conversation in this field, and she continues to blaze a trail for the rest of us. This book is exemplary performance scholarship: rigorously argued and theoretically-informed, yet written with such a readable style and attention to detail that the performances described really come alive in the mind of the reader.' Stephen Purcell, University of Warwick
' this book presents an exciting frame that could be applied to many others.' William N. West, SEL Studies in English Literature 15001900

About Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter)

Pascale Aebischer is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Shakespeare's Violated Bodies (2004), Jacobean Drama (2010), and Screening Early Modern Drama (2013). Formerly the editor of Shakespeare Bulletin, she has also co-edited several collections of essays, including Performing Early Modern Drama Today (with Kathryn Prince, 2012; Choice Outstanding Academic Title winner 2013), and Shakespeare and the 'Live' Theatre Broadcast Experience (with Susanne Greenhalgh and Laurie Osborne, 2018).

Table of Contents

Introduction. Shakespeare, spectatorship and technologies of performance; Part I. Candlelight and Architecture at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse: 1. Dominic Dromgoole's The Changeling (2015): social division and anamorphic vision; 2. Dominic Dromgoole's The Tempest (2016): labour, technology and the gender of theatrical magic; Part II. Digital Technologies and Early Modern Drama at the National Theatre and the RSC: 3. Stanislavski in the closet: Joe Hill-Gibbins' Edward II (National Theatre, 2013); 4. 'Tech-enabled' theatre at the RSC: digital performance and Gregory Doran's Tempest (RSC, 2016); Part III. 'Invisible' Technology and 'Liveness' in Digital Theatre Broadcasting: 5. Hamlet in parts: Robin Lough's RSC live cinema broadcast of Simon Godwin's Hamlet (8 June 2016); 6. Offstage dynamics and the virtual public sphere in Cheek by Jowl's live stream of Measure for Measure (2015); Concluding most obscenely: offstage technophelias.

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NGR9781108420488
9781108420488
1108420486
Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance by Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2020-04-30
256
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