This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of
watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of
2020. The first section of the Element explores how Shakespeare
'went viral' during the first lockdown of 2020 and considers how
the archival recordings of Shakespeare productions made freely
available by theatres across Europe and North America impacted on
modes of spectatorship and viewing practices, with a particular
focus on the effect of binge-watching Hamlet in lockdown. The
Element's second section documents two made-for-digital productions
of Shakespeare by Oxford-based Creation Theatre and Northern Irish
Big Telly, two companies who became leaders in digital theatre
during the pandemic. It investigates how their productions of The
Tempest and Macbeth modelled new platform-specific ways of engaging
with audiences and creating communities of viewing at a time when,
in the UK, government policies were excluding most
non-building-based theatre companies and freelancers from pandemic
relief packages.
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