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Author Aebischer, Pascale, 1970- author.

Title Shakespeare, spectatorship and the technologies of performance / Pascale Aebischer
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 242 pages) : illustrations
Contents Dominic Dromgoole's The changeling (2015) : social division and anamorphic vision -- Dominic Dromgoole's The tempest (2016) : labour, technology and the gender of theatrical magic -- Stanislavski in the closet : Joe Hill-Gibbins' Edward II (National Theatre, 2013) -- 'Tech-enabled' theatre at the RSC : digital performance and Gregory Doran's Tempest (RSC, 2016) -- Hamlet in parts : Robin Lough's RSC live cinema broadcast of Simon Godwin's Hamlet (8 June 2016) -- Offstage dynamics and the virtual public sphere in Cheek by jowl's live stream of Measure for measure (2015) -- Concluding most obscenely: Offstage technophelias
Summary "Shakespeare, Spectatorship and Technologies of Performance examines how rapid changes in performance technologies affect modes of spectatorship for early modern drama. It argues that seemingly disparate developments - such as the revival of early modern architectural and lighting technologies, digital performance technologies and the hybrid medium of theatre broadcast - are fundamentally related. How spectators experience performances is not only affected in medium-specific ways by particular technologies, but is also connected to the plays' roots in early modern performance environments. Aebischer's examples range from the use of candlelight and re-imagined early modern architecture, to set design, performance capture technologies, digital video, social media, hologram projection, biotechnologies and theatre broadcasts. This book argues that digital and analogue performance technologies alike activate modes of ethical spectatorship, requiring audiences to adopt an ethical standpoint as they decide how to look, where to look, what medium to look through, and how to take responsibility for looking"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2020)
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- 21st century
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Theater -- Production and direction -- Technological innovations
Theater audiences -- Effect of technological innovations on
Technology and the arts.
Technology and the arts
Theater
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019056030
ISBN 9781108339001
110833900X
9781108359450
1108359450