Research Catalog

Title

Blindness and spectatorship in ancient and modern theatres : towards new ways of looking and looking back / Marchella Ward.

Author

Ward, Marchella, 1991-

Publication

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

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Details

Description

xv, 295 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

"Debunks stereotypes about blindness, in which readers, receivers and spectators from antiquity to the present have been implicated because their persistence relies on audiences to perpetuate them. Argues for a new way of seeing - and of understanding classical reception - using assemblage-thinking and with a focus on the theatre"--

Series Statement

Classics after antiquity

Uniform Title

Classics after antiquity.

Subject

• Theater audiences > Psychology
• Blindness in the theater
• Theater > History
• Drama > History and criticism
• Blindness in literature
• Drama
• Theater
• Theater audiences

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-292) and index.

Call Number

MWEC 24-747

ISBN

• 9781009372770
• 1009372777
• 9781009372732 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023016428

OCLC

1380755876

Author

Ward, Marchella, 1991- author.

Title

Blindness and spectatorship in ancient and modern theatres : towards new ways of looking and looking back / Marchella Ward.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Classics after antiquity

Classics after antiquity.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-292) and index.

Connect to:

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009372732

Other Form:

Electronic version: Ward, Marchella, 1991- Blindness and spectatorship in ancient and modern theatres. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024 9781009372732 (DLC) 2023016429 (OCoLC)1380857972

Research Call Number

MWEC 24-747