A needed companion…Thanks to their wide dissemination, broadcasts have become the go-to example of Shakespeare in performance, and yet they constitute a deed without a name, stranded between the immediacy of theatrical liveness and the editorial apparatus of cinema. Essays address this uncertain form from one of four positions…the result is a wide-ranging and incisive study that is as attentive to ‘deformance’ as it is to form.

Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

I used to go to my local cinema to watch films. Now I'm more likely to go to see a 'live from' relay, most of which are of Shakespeare. This brilliant collection of pieces sets the parameters for our consideration of the phenomenon for years to come, exploring examples of reception round the world and investigating the technologies that are creating such exhilarating new ways to watch live and once-live theatre by an ever-increasing array of theatre companies.

- Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame.,

This book helps us to rethink the ways in which Shakespearean performance is produced and experienced in the twenty-first century. Drawing on an innovative range of research methodologies and theoretical approaches, the essays in this collection are cutting-edge and mutually illuminating. This is sure to be a foundational text for future studies of the phenomenon of the ‘live’ theatre broadcast." Stephen Purcell, University of Warwick

- Stephen Purcell, University of Warwick,

This ground breaking collection of essays is the first to examine the phenomenon of how, in the twenty-first century, Shakespeare has been experienced as a ‘live’ or ‘as-live’ theatre broadcast by audiences around the world. Shakespeare and the 'Live' Theatre Broadcast Experience explores the precursors of this phenomenon and its role in Shakespeare’s continuing globalization. It considers some of the most important companies that have produced such broadcasts since 2009, including NT Live, Globe on Screen, RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford Festival HD, Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Live, and Cheek by Jowl, and examines the impact these broadcasts have had on branding, ideology, style and access to Shakespeare for international audiences. Contributors from around the world reflect on how broadcasts impact on actors’ performances, changing viewing practices, local and international Shakespearean fan cultures and the use of social media by audience members for whom “liveness” is increasingly tied up in the experience economy. The book tackles vexing questions regarding the ‘presentness’ and ‘liveness’ of performance in the 21st century, the reception of Shakespeare in a globally-connected environment, the challenges of sustaining an audience for stage Shakespeare, and the ideological implications of consuming theatre on screen. It will be crucial reading for scholars of the ‘live’ theatre broadcast, and enormously helpful for scholars of Shakespeare on screen and in performance more broadly.
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Illustrations viiiList of Contributors ixAcknowledgements xNote on the text xiList of Abbreviations xiiIntroduction 1Pascale Aebischer and Susanne GreenhalghPart One: Wide Angle1 The Remains of the Stage: Revivifying ShakespeareanTheatre on Screen, 1964–2016 19Susanne Greenhalgh2 Shakespeare’s New Marketplace: the Places of EventCinema 41Susan Bennett3 The Audience is Present: Aliveness, Social Media, and theTheatre Broadcast Experience 59Erin Sullivan, University of Birmingham, UK4 Understanding New Encounters with Shakespeare: HybridMedia and Emerging Audience Behaviours 77Rachael NicholasPart Two: In the Theatre5 A View from the Stage: Interviews with Performers 95Beth Sharrock6 A View from the Stalls: The Audience’s Experience in theTheatre During the RSC Live from Stratford-upon-AvonBroadcasts 103Julie RabyPart Three: Close-Ups7 South Bank Shakespeare Goes Global: Broadcasting fromShakespeare’s Globe and the National Theatre 113Pascale Aebischer8 The Stratford Festival of Canada: Mental Tricks andArchival Documents in the Age of NTLive 133Margaret Jane Kidnie9 Talawa and Black Theatre Live: ‘Creating the Ira AldridgesThat Are Remembered’ – Live Theatre Broadcast and theHistorical Record 147Jami Rogers10 Cheek by Jowl: Reframing Complicity in Web-Streams ofMeasure for Measure 161Peter KirwanPart Four: Reaction Shots11 The Curious Incident of Shakespeare Fans in NTLive:Public Screenings and Fan Culture in Japan 177Kitamura Sae12 Shakespeare and the Theatre Broadcast Experience: AView from Hong Kong 185Michael Ingham13 Very Like a Film: Hamlet Live in Bologna 193Keir Elam14 Shakespeare at a Theatre Near You: Student Engagementin Northeast Ohio 199Ann M. Martinez15 Shakespeare from the House of Molière:The Comédie-Française/Pathé Live Roméo etJuliette (2016) 207Pascale AebischerEpilogue: Revisiting Liveness 215Laurie E. OsborneAppendix: Digital Theatre Broadcasts of Shakespeare,2003–17 227Rachael NicholasIndex 243
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This volume examines theatre broadcasts of Shakespeare to a range of platforms for global distribution.
International contributors offer global case studies of this relatively new form of theatre

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350030466
Publisert
2018-07-26
Utgiver
Vendor
The Arden Shakespeare
Vekt
553 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
264

Biographical note

Pascale Aebischer is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies at the University of Exeter. She specialises in the history of the performance of early modern drama (including Shakespeare), with an emphasis on 1580s-1700 and 1980s-present. She has a particular interest in bodies and performance technologies (from candlelight through social media to 'live' theatre broadcast), as well as in the connection between the reconstruction of early modern playhouses and urban regeneration. These interests are reflected in her teaching, which focuses on early modern - Restoration theatrical cultures and performance practices, Shakespeare, and present-day performance on stages and screens.

Susanne Greenhalgh is currently Principal Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her current research interests centre on reception studies and the relationship between theatre and screen media, especially in relation to Shakespeare's circulation, adaptation and citation in different periods and settings, including the home, theatre and mass media.

Laurie Osborne, is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Colby College, USA. She teaches Shakespeare, film theory, literary theory, adaptation studies and composition. Her most recent scholarship focuses on "Shakespeare and Popular Culture."