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Talking to the audience : Shakespeare, performance, self

Title: Talking to the audience : Shakespeare, performance, self / Bridget Escolme.
Author: Escolme, Bridget, 1964-
Publication: New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Description

xii, 192 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address - talking to the audience - constructs 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 finds itself in the presence of a dramatic figure who knows it is there. It is a book concerned with theatrical illusion and with the pleasures and disturbances of seeing 'characters' produced in the moment of performance."
"Through analysis of international contemporary productions, Talking to the Audience demonstrates 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 makes this essential reading for all those studying Shakespeare in either a literary or theatrical context."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-187) and index.

Contents

Actors, academics, selves -- 'Bits and bitterness': politics, performance, Troilus and Cressida -- The point or the question : text, performance, Hamlet -- The theatre and the presence chamber : history, performance, Richard II -- Performing human : the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio.

ISBN

0415332230
9780415332231
0415332222
9780415332224

LCCN

2004012724

OCLC

ocm55616047
55616047
SCSB-14652403

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library