1st Edition
Talking to the Audience Shakespeare, Performance, Self
By Bridget Escolme
Copyright 2005
208 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address - talking to the audience - can construct 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 are in the presence of a dramatic figure who knows they are there. It is a book... Read more
Acknowledgments 1.Actors, Academics, Selves; 2. 'Bits and Bitterness': Politics, Performance, Troilus and Cressida 3. The Point or the Question: Text, Performance, Hamlet 4. The Theatre and the Presence Chamber: History, Performance, Richard II 5. Performing Human: The Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio Conclusion Notes Bibliography
Biography
Escolme, Bridget
'Sharply observant, thoughtful and adventurous' - Theatre Research International
