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Dramatic Spaces: Scenography and Spectatorial Perceptions

Jennifer A. Low

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Description:For literary scholars, plays are texts; for scenographers, plays are performances. Yet clearly a drama is "both" text and performance. "Dramatic Spaces" examines period-specific stage spaces in order to assess how design shaped the thematic and experiential dimensions of plays. This book highlights the stakes of the debate about spatiality and the role of the spectator in the auditorium if audience members are co-creators of the drama, how do they contribute?The book investigates:Roman comedy and Shakespearean dramas in which the stage-space itself constituted the primary scenographic element and actors bodies shaped the playing space more than did sets or propsthe use of paid applauders in nineteenth-century Parisian theaters and how this practice reconfigured theatrical spacetransactions between stage designers and spectators, including work by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, William Ritman, and Eiko Ishioka"Dramatic Spaces" aims to do for stage design what reader-response criticism has done for the literary text, with specific case studies on "Coriolanus," "The Comedy of Errors," "Romeo and Juliet," "Tales of Hoffman," "M. Butterfly" and "Tiny Alice" exploring the audience s contribution to the construction of meaning."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dramatic Spaces: Scenography and Spectatorial Perceptions. To get started finding Dramatic Spaces: Scenography and Spectatorial Perceptions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: For literary scholars, plays are texts; for scenographers, plays are performances. Yet clearly a drama is "both" text and performance. "Dramatic Spaces" examines period-specific stage spaces in order to assess how design shaped the thematic and experiential dimensions of plays. This book highlights the stakes of the debate about spatiality and the role of the spectator in the auditorium if audience members are co-creators of the drama, how do they contribute?The book investigates:Roman comedy and Shakespearean dramas in which the stage-space itself constituted the primary scenographic element and actors bodies shaped the playing space more than did sets or propsthe use of paid applauders in nineteenth-century Parisian theaters and how this practice reconfigured theatrical spacetransactions between stage designers and spectators, including work by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, William Ritman, and Eiko Ishioka"Dramatic Spaces" aims to do for stage design what reader-response criticism has done for the literary text, with specific case studies on "Coriolanus," "The Comedy of Errors," "Romeo and Juliet," "Tales of Hoffman," "M. Butterfly" and "Tiny Alice" exploring the audience s contribution to the construction of meaning."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dramatic Spaces: Scenography and Spectatorial Perceptions. To get started finding Dramatic Spaces: Scenography and Spectatorial Perceptions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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