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Escolme, Bridget, 1964-

Talking to the audience : Shakespeare, performance, self / Bridget Escolme. - Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2005. - 1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-187) and index.

Actors, academics, selves -- 'Bits and bitterness': politics, performance, Troilus and Cressida -- The point or the question : text, performance, Hamlet -- The theatre and the presence chamber : history, performance, Richard II -- Performing human : the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio.

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address - talking to the audience - can construct dramatic subjectivity, or selfhood, in Shakespeare plays.

ISBN: 0203339649 9780203339640 9780415332224 0415332222 9780415332231 0415332230 9786610171033 6610171033

Subjects--Personal Names:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Theater audiences.
Acting.
PERFORMING ARTS--Theater--History & Criticism.
Acting.
Theater.
Theater audiences.
Publiek.
Zelfbeeld.
Aufführung
Acteren.
Terzijdes.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR3091 / .E83 2005eb

Dewey Class. No.: 792.9/5