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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825749903321

Autore

Escolme Bridget <1964-, >

Titolo

Talking to the audience : Shakespeare, performance, self / / Bridget Escolme

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-32077-9

3-639-01701-3

1-134-32078-7

0-203-33964-9

1-280-17103-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Disciplina

792.95

Soggetti

Theater audiences

Acting

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Actors, Academics, Selves; 2. 'Bits and Bitterness': Politics, Performance,; 3. The Point or the Question? Text, Performance,; 4. The Theatre and the Presence Chamber: History, Performance; 5. Performing Human: The Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio; Conclusion; Notes; Productions Cited; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 concerned with theatrical illusion; with the pleasures and disturbances of seeing 'characters' produced in the moment of performance.Through analysis of contemporary productions Talking to t