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Informationen zum Autor Dennis Kennedy was born in Cincinnati, studied in California and Oxford, and is the Samuel Beckett Professor of Drama (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin. A member of the Royal Irish Academy and the Academia Europaea, he has published a number of award-winning books on literary and theatrical subjects with Oxford and Cambridge university presses. He has also worked internationally as a playwright and director, and his novel Fossil Light appeared in 2023. dennis-kennedy.com Klappentext This book investigates the role and impact of the spectator, covering many different performance types including theatre, sport, television, gambling and ritual. Zusammenfassung Are spectators passive receptors! merely consuming what is offered! or are they active participants! adding something to the event? In what ways does a spectator assist the spectacle? This wide-ranging study addresses these and many other questions! covering many different types of performance events including theatre! sport! television and ritual. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Problem of the Spectator: 1. Introduction: assisting at the spectacle; 2. The director, the spectator and the Eiffel Tower; 3. The avant-garde and the audience; Part II. Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectation: 4. Shakespeare and the Cold War; 5. The spectator as tourist; 6. Interculturalism and the global spectator; 7. The body of the spectator; Part III. Subjectivity and the Spectator: 8. Society, spectacle and sport; 9. The aroused spectator; 10. Memory, performance and the idea of the museum; 11. Assisting belief: ritual and the spectator.
