Weathering Shakespeare

Audiences and Open-air Performance

Dr Evelyn O'Malley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350078062 (ISBN)

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Winner of the ASLE-UKI 2022 Book Prize

From The Pastoral Players’ 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary site-specific productions activist interventions, there is a rich history of open air performances of Shakespeare’s plays beyond their early modern origins. Weathering Shakespeare reveals how new insights from the environmental humanities can transform our understanding of this popular performance practice. Drawing on audience accounts of outdoor productions of those plays most commonly chosen for open air performance – including A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest – the book examines how performers and audiences alike have reacted to unpredictable natural environments.

Evelyn O'Malley is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK.

Introduction

Part One

Chapter One Performing Pastoral: A New Form of Poetic Representation

Chapter Two Light them at the Fiery Glow-Worm’s Eyes: Max Reinhardt’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Part Two

Chapter Three Shakespeare-InspiredNature-Theaters: MinackandtheWillowGlobe

Chapter Four Wandering in Woods: The Natural Place for the Play

Part Three

Chapter Five Green Atmospheres: Nature Playing (Along, Sometimes)

Chapter Six Shakespeare for a Changing Climate

Afterword
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	Environmental Cultures
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781350078062 / 9781350078062
Zustand	Neuware