Shakespeare’s Audiences (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367715465 ISBN 13: 9780367715465

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

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 chapters 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 and a broader understanding of the various, often complex, connections between and among those audiences across the long history of Shakespearean performance.

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About the Author

Matteo Pangallo is an Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Peter Kirwan is Associate Professor of Early Modern Drama at the University of Nottingham.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367715465
• ISBN 13: 9780367715465
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Pangallo Matteo, Kirwan Peter