Overview

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 Dream (2021), CREW’s Hands on Hamlet (2017), Kit Monkman’s Macbeth (2018), Arslanköy Theatre Company’s Kraliçe 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.

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Author:   Danielle Rosvally (University at Buffalo, USA) ,  Donovan Sherman (Seton Hall University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
ISBN:  

9781350318472

ISBN 10:   1350318477
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   26 January 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Danielle Rosvally (University at Buffalo, USA) and Donovan Sherman (Seton Hall University, USA) Part One: Proximity 1. Liveness in Virtual Early Modern Theatre Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 2. Impressions of Liveness in Shakespeare, at a Distance Stephanie Shirilan (Syracuse University, USA) 3. Medium Specificity, Medium Convergence, and Aliveness in the Chromakey (2018) and Big Telly Zoom (2020) Macbeths Thomas Cartelli (Muhlenberg College, USA) Part Two: Performance 4. Liveness in VR and AR Shakespeare Adaptations Aneta Mancewicz (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 5. Alive in the (Early) Modern Repertory Elizabeth E. Tavares (University of Alabama, USA) 6. Contemporary Turkish Shakespeares: New Breath to Old Lives Murat Ögütcü (independent scholar, Turkey) 7. Death Draws Down our Curtain: Liveness Beyond Life in Early Modern Persianate Islam Kenneth Molloy (Brown University, USA) 8. Signs of Liveness: The Blazing Star in Renaissance Drama Gina M. Di Salvo (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA) 9. The Apparitional Audience: Prophesizing Live Collectives in Modern India and Early Modern England Jonathan Gil Harris (Ashoka University, India) Index

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Important for historians of modern theatre. * Sun News Austin *

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Danielle Rosvally is Clinical Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, USA. Donovan Sherman is Associate Professor of English at Seton Hall University, USA.

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