Susan Bennett (1) (1965–)
Auteur de Theatre Audiences
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A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Princeton University
Œuvres de Susan Bennett
Performing Environments: Site-Specificity in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama (2014) 4 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1965
- Sexe
- female
- Courte biographie
- Susan Bennett is University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is widely published across a variety of theatre and performance studies topics, and her previous books include Theatre and Museums (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception (1997) and Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past (1996).
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Critiques
Theatre Audiences par Susan Bennett
Susan Bennett's highly successful Theatre Audiences is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different theatres and their audiences.
Contemporary culture is obsessed with the past. And contemporary performance is obsessed with Shakespeare. Why does Shakespeare so often perform the nostalgic role of reviving a better past for modern audiences? And what do radical rewritings of Shakespeare's plays say both to and about their audiences? This is an inquiry into how Shakespeare is reproduced today. It looks at the enduring influence he has on present-day performance, and questions how inter-cultural and cross-cultural productions reconfigure him for "alternative" performances. An attempt is made to speak across many divides - from literature to theatre, from theory to practice.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 57
- Popularité
- #287,973
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 33