Weathering Shakespeare
Audiences and Open-air Performance
Seiten
2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-07806-2 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-07806-2 (ISBN)
Winner of the ASLE-UKI 2022 Book Prize
From The Pastoral Players’ 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary site-specific productions activist interventions, there is a rich history of open air performances of Shakespeare’s plays beyond their early modern origins. Weathering Shakespeare reveals how new insights from the environmental humanities can transform our understanding of this popular performance practice. Drawing on audience accounts of outdoor productions of those plays most commonly chosen for open air performance – including A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest – the book examines how performers and audiences alike have reacted to unpredictable natural environments.
From The Pastoral Players’ 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary site-specific productions activist interventions, there is a rich history of open air performances of Shakespeare’s plays beyond their early modern origins. Weathering Shakespeare reveals how new insights from the environmental humanities can transform our understanding of this popular performance practice. Drawing on audience accounts of outdoor productions of those plays most commonly chosen for open air performance – including A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest – the book examines how performers and audiences alike have reacted to unpredictable natural environments.
Evelyn O'Malley is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK.
Introduction
Part One
Chapter One Performing Pastoral: A New Form of Poetic Representation
Chapter Two Light them at the Fiery Glow-Worm’s Eyes: Max Reinhardt’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Part Two
Chapter Three Shakespeare-InspiredNature-Theaters: MinackandtheWillowGlobe
Chapter Four Wandering in Woods: The Natural Place for the Play
Part Three
Chapter Five Green Atmospheres: Nature Playing (Along, Sometimes)
Chapter Six Shakespeare for a Changing Climate
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.01.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Environmental Cultures |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 517 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-07806-9 / 1350078069 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-07806-2 / 9781350078062 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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