220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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For literary scholars, plays are texts; for scenographers, plays are performances. Yet clearly a drama is both text and performance. Dramatic Spaces examines period-specific stage spaces in order to assess how design shaped the thematic and experiential dimensions of plays. This book highlights the stakes of the debate about spatiality and the role of the spectator in the auditorium – if... Read more
Introduction 1. Inside the Theater: Audience Experience at The Menaechmi and The Comedy of Errors 2. "Bodied Forth": Spectator, Stage, and Actor in Early Modern English Theaters 3. Audience Performance: The Claque in Nineteenth-century French Theater 4. How Modernism Played in Berlin: Moholy-Nagy’s Hoffmann at the Kroll Opera House 5. Box Set to the Infinite Power: Metatheatricality and Set Design in Albee's Tiny Alice 6. Design and Double Vision: Spectatorial Experience and M. Butterfly
Biography
Jennifer Low is Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University.
