Gods and groundlings [[electronic resource] ] : historical theatrical audiences

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785967503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2012
• ISBN: 0-8173-8632-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (128 p.)
• Collana: Theatre symposium ; ; 20
• Disciplina: 792.09
• Soggetti: Theater audiences; Theater - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction - E. Bert Wallace; Making Up the Audience: Spectatorship in Historical Context - Susan Bennett; The Matinee Audience in Peril: The Syndicate's Mr. Bluebeard and the Iroquois Theatre Fire - Jane Barnette; Prosceniums and Screens: Audience Embodiment into the Digital Age - Becky Becker; Annie Oakley and the Disruption of Victorian Expectations - Lisa Bernd; Thomas King at Sadler's Wells and Drury Lane: How the Audience (Mis)Read Management - Evan Bridenstine; Image - Makers and Their Discontents: Lady Gregory and the Abbey Theatre Audience - Michael Jaros; Anxious Audiences and the Early Modern English Transvestite Theatre - Robert I. LublinNeglected Evidence: Interpreting the Site of an Elizabethan Royal Entertainment - Paulette Marty; Creating Ideal Audiences: Ludwig Tieck and German Access to Shakespeare - Natalie Tenner; Shuffling Roles: Alterations and Audiences in Shuffle Along - David S. Thompson; When Audiences Attack: The Manhandling of Actress and Activist Kitty Marion - Christine Woodworth; Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: The audience is an integral part of performance and is in fact what separates a rehearsal from a performance. The relationship, however, between performers and the audience has evolved over time, which is one of the subjects addressed, along with the changing disposition of the audience itself and a number of other topics, in Gods and Groundlings, volume 20 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium. The ; essays in this volume discuss spectatorship in historical context, the role of the audience in the digital age, the early modern English transvestite theatre, Annie Oakley