Pascale Aebischer

Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108359450
• Artikelnr.: 66177915

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.