Talking to the Audience - Shakespeare, Performance, Self (Hardcover)

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address - talking to the audience - can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. By focusing specifically on the relationship between performer and audience, Talking to the Audience examines what happens when the audience are in the presence of a dramatic figure who knows they are there. It is a book concerned with theatrical illusion; with the pleasures and disturbances of seeing 'characters' produced in the moment of performance.
Through analysis of contemporary productions Talking to the Audience serves to demonstrate how the study of recent performance helps us to understand both Shakespeare's cultural moment and our own. Its exploration of how theory and practice can inform each other make this essential reading for all those studying Shakespeare in either a literary or theatrical context.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Bridget Escolme
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	204
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-33222-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare plays, texts Promotions
LSN:	0-415-33222-2
Barcode:	9780415332224

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