Early Modern Liveness - Mediating Presence in Text, Stage and Screen

What does it mean for early modern theatre to be ''live''? How have audiences over time experienced a sense of ''liveness''? This collection extends discussions of liveness to works from the 16th and 17th centuries, both in their initial incarnations and contemporary adaptations. Drawing on theatre and performance studies, as well as media theory, this volume uses the concept of liveness to consider how early modern theatre - including non-Western and non-traditional performance - employs embodiment, materiality, temporality and perception to impress on its audience a sensation of presence. The volume''s contributors adopt varying approaches and cover a range of topics from material and textual studies, to early modern rehearsal methods, to digital and VR theatre, to the legacy of Shakespearean performance in global theatrical repertoires. This collection uses both early modern and contemporary performance practices to challenge our understanding of live performance. Productions and adaptions discussed include the Royal Shakespeare Company''s (2021) , CREW''s Hands on Hamlet (2017) , Kit Monkman''s Macbeth (2018), Arslankoy Theatre Company''s Kralice Lear (2019), and a season of productions by the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival. Early Modern Liveness looks beyond theatrical events as primary sites of interpretive authority and examines the intimate and ephemeral experience of encountering early modern theatre in its diverse manifestations.>

Product details

• Authors: Danielle Rosvally, Donovan Sherman
• Assisted by: Danielle Rosvally (Editor), Donovan Sherman (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2024
• EAN: 9781350318519
• ISBN: 978-1-350-31851-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 214 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Digital lifestyle, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean