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Weathering Shakespeare: Audiences and Open-air Performance
Weathering Shakespeare: Audiences and Open-air Performance
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The book "Weathering Shakespeare" explores how new insights from the environmental humanities can transform our understanding of open-air performances of Shakespeare's plays, drawing on audience accounts of productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Tempest."
\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 240 pages
\n Publication date: 24 December 2020
\n Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.
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.
\n Weight: 518g\n
Dimension: 164 x 242 x 21 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781350078062\n \n
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