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Weathering Shakespeare: Audiences and Open-air Performance de Dr Evelyn O'Malley

Weathering Shakespeare: Audiences and Open-air Performance: Environmental Cultures

Autor Dr Evelyn O'Malley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mai 2022
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350202443
ISBN-10: 1350202444
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 154 x 232 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Environmental Cultures

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

For O'Malley, coming to terms with our connection to the world around us - to the atmosphere, the landscape and the creatures with which we share it - is crucial to combating the climate crisis.
Among the major merits of the work, together with its topicality, is the unprecedented choice of leaving room for the voice of the public through reports and direct testimonies, often absent from academic literature.
Drawing on the latest developments in ecocritical theory and extensive fieldwork at outdoor theatres throughout the UK, O'Malley offers a savvy and hard-headed appraisal of open-air Shakespeare as a forum for ecological advocacy. This book advances numerous concepts and arguments that will have a decisive impact on the study of open-air performance in the Anthropocene. For anyone who plans to perform in or attend an outdoor production, Weathering Shakespeare is essential reading.
There are important familiar points to be made about the value of this book: its original focus on contemporary outdoor Shakespeare is a significant contribution to our understanding of theatre today. More important though, is its careful, slow, local and holistic attention to performance. By examining the creative worlding or collective weathering that goes on between players, audience, text and location, O'Malley's study is exemplary of what theatre scholarship should do in the age of ecological crisis.