Shakespeare, spectatorship and the technologies of performance /
Shakespeare, Spectatorship and Technologies of Performance examines how rapid changes in performance technologies affect modes of spectatorship for early modern drama. It argues that seemingly disparate developments, such as the revival of early modern architectural and lighting technologies, digita...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Shakespeare, Spectatorship and Technologies of Performance examines how rapid changes in performance technologies affect modes of spectatorship for early modern drama. It argues that seemingly disparate developments, such as the revival of early modern architectural and lighting technologies, digital performance technologies and the hybrid medium of theater broadcast, are fundamentally related. How spectators experience performances is not only affected in medium-specific ways by particular technologies, but is also connected to the plays' roots in early modern performance environments. Aebischer's examples range from the use of candlelight and reimagined early modern architecture, to set design, performance capture technologies, digital video, social media, hologram projection, biotechnologies and theater broadcasts. This book argues that digital and analogue performance technologies alike activate modes of ethical spectatorship, requiring audiences to adopt an ethical standpoint as they decide how to look, where to look, what medium to look through and how to take responsibility for looking. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108420488 1108420486 9781108430357 110843035X |