Weathering Shakespeare: Audiences and Open-air Performance

Weathering Shakespeare: Audiences and Open-air Performance
ISBN-10
1350078077
ISBN-13
9781350078079
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2020-12-24
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
Evelyn O'Malley

Description

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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