{"product_id":"dramatic-spaces-1","title":"Dramatic Spaces","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor literary scholars, plays are texts; for scenographers, plays are performances. Yet clearly a drama is \u003ci\u003eboth\u003c\/i\u003e text and performance. \u003ci\u003eDramatic Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book investigates:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoman 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 props\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe use of paid applauders in nineteenth-century Parisian theaters and how this practice reconfigured theatrical space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etransactions between stage designers and spectators, including work by László Moholy-Nagy, William Ritman, and Eiko Ishioka \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDramatic Spaces aims to do for stage design what reader-response criticism has done for the literary text, with specific case studies on \u003ci\u003eCoriolanus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Comedy of Errors\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTales of Hoffman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eM. Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTiny Alice\u003c\/i\u003e exploring the audience’s contribution to the construction of meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54238840226136,"sku":"9780367524456","price":55.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367524456.jpg?v=1769566548","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dramatic-spaces-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}