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Space : Locus and Platea in modern Shakespearean performance
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Purcell, Stephen (2021) Space : Locus and Platea in modern Shakespearean performance. In: Kirwan, Peter and Prince, Kathryn, (eds.) The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance. The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks . London ; New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350080676
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Abstract
Early modern theatrical space has often been theorized with reference to Robert Weimann’s model of locus and platea. For Weimann, these concepts, inherited from the medieval theatre, marked either end of a spectrum between representational closure and non-representational openness – broadly speaking, the ‘there-and-then’ of the fiction versus the ‘here-and-now’ of the performer. This chapter considers Weimann’s theory in detail, offering a survey of some of the critical appropriations of and responses to his work, and examining these in light of modern practice at Shakespeare’s Globe and elsewhere. It concludes by suggesting some variations on Weimann’s ideas that may take into account a mode of platea-like performance that his work does not anticipate.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Series Name: | The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks | ||||
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing | ||||
Place of Publication: | London ; New York | ||||
ISBN: | 9781350080676 | ||||
Book Title: | The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance | ||||
Editor: | Kirwan, Peter and Prince, Kathryn | ||||
Official Date: | 25 March 2021 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 416 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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