Hamlet of Shakespeare's Audience
Author: John Draper
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780714610276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Shakespeare’s Audiences
Author: Matteo Pangallo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-28
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1000352579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Imagining Shakespeare's Original Audience, 1660-2000
Author: Bettina Boecker
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1137379960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Comparatively little is known about Shakespeare's first audiences. This study argues that the Elizabethan audience is an essential part of Shakespeare as a site of cultural meaning, and that the way criticism thinks of early modern theatregoers is directly related to the way it thinks of, and uses, the Bard himself.
Shakespeare's Reading Audiences
Author: Cyndia Susan Clegg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-26
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1108121373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study grows out of the intersection of two realms of scholarly investigation - the emerging public sphere in early modern England and the history of the book. Shakespeare's Reading Audiences examines the ways in which different communities - humanist, legal, religious and political - would have interpreted Shakespeare's plays and poems, whether printed or performed. Cyndia Susan Clegg begins by analysing elite reading clusters associated with the Court, the universities, and the Inns of Court and how their interpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnets and Henry V arose from their reading of Italian humanists. She concludes by examining how widely held public knowledge about English history both affected Richard II's reception and how such knowledge was appropriated by the State. She also considers The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, and Othello from the point of view of audience members conversant in popular English legal writing and Macbeth from the perspective of popular English Calvinism.
Shakespeare and the Awareness of Audience
Author: Ralph Berry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-30
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1317370937
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, first published in 1985, explores the consciousness and the experience of Shakespeare’s audience. First describing the stage’s physical impact, Ralph Berry then goes on to explore the social or tribal consciousness of the audience in certain plays. The title finishes by examining the masque – the salient form of the Jacobean theatre. This title will be of interest to students of literature and theatre studies.
Shakespeare's Audience
Shakespeare's Theatre
Author: Hugh Macrae Richmond
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9780826477767
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Under an alphabetical list of relevant terms, names and concepts, the book reviews current knowledge of the character and operation of theatres in Shakespeare's time, with an explanation of their origins>
Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences
Author: Fiona Banks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-11-15
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1474257941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences brings together the voices of those who make productions of Shakespeare come to life. It shines a spotlight on the relationship between actors and audiences and explores the interplay that makes each performance unique. We know much about theatre in Shakespeare's time but very little about the audiences who attended his plays. Even today the audience's voice remains largely ignored. This volume places the role of the audience at the centre of how we understand Shakespeare in performance. Part One offers an overview of the best current audience research and provides a critical framework for the interviews and testimony of leading actors, theatre makers and audience members that follow in Part Two, including Juliet Stevenson and Emma Rice. Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences offers a fascinating insight into the world of theatre production and of the relationship between actor and audience that lies at the heart of theatre-making.
The Twelfth Night of Shakespeare's Audience
Shakespeare's Theatre: A History
Author: Richard Dutton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-01-02
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1118939336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shakespeare’s Theatre: A History examines the theatre spaces used by William Shakespeare, and explores these spaces in relation to the social and political framework of the Elizabethan era. The text journeys from the performing spaces of the provincial inns, guild halls and houses of the gentry of the Bard’s early career, to the purpose-built outdoor playhouses of London, including the Globe, the Theatre, and the Curtain, and the royal courts of Elizabeth and James I. The author also discusses the players for whom Shakespeare wrote, and the positioning—or dispositioning—of audience members in relation to the stage. Widely and deeply researched, this fascinating volume is the first to draw on the most recent archaeological work on the remains of the Rose and the Globe, as well as continuing publications from the Records of Early English Drama project. The book also explores the contentious view that the ‘plot’ of The Seven Deadly Sins (part II), provides unprecedented insight into the working practices of Shakespeare’s company and includes a complete and modernized version of the ‘plot’. Throughout, the author relates the practicalities of early modern playing to the evolving systems of aristocratic patronage and royal licensing within which they developed Insightful and engaging, Shakespeare’s Theatre is ideal reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of literature and theatre studies.
