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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825749903321
• Autore: Escolme Bridget <1964->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Routledge, 2005
• ISBN: 1-134-32077-9; 3-639-01701-3; 1-134-32078-7; 0-203-33964-9; 1-280-17103-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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