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

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Routledge studies in Shakespeare.
Other Authors: Pangallo, Matteo A. (Editor)
Kirwan, Peter (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge studies in Shakespeare.
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Physical Description:xiii, 234 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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.