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TY - JOUR
T1 - Shakespeare Ceremony and the Public Sphere of Performance
AU - Findlay, Alison Gail
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - The Globe’s experiments with audience involvement have introduced novel methods of rendering spectators aware of their presence within any performance. Most of this is catered for and rehearsed, but – performance by performance – there is the opportunity for spontaneous gestures and responses. This essay focuses on this self-awareness in the Globe’s 2010 productions of Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew and All is True (Henry VIII), where the ceremony of distance between on- and offstage and between spectating and participating is questioned. As a result of this, some of Habermas’ assumptions as to what a cultural “Public Sphere” might be are extended to include the theatrical potential both as a result of external factors such as expected conventions before the performance and internal nuances that bring surprise and challenge such traditions.
AB - The Globe’s experiments with audience involvement have introduced novel methods of rendering spectators aware of their presence within any performance. Most of this is catered for and rehearsed, but – performance by performance – there is the opportunity for spontaneous gestures and responses. This essay focuses on this self-awareness in the Globe’s 2010 productions of Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew and All is True (Henry VIII), where the ceremony of distance between on- and offstage and between spectating and participating is questioned. As a result of this, some of Habermas’ assumptions as to what a cultural “Public Sphere” might be are extended to include the theatrical potential both as a result of external factors such as expected conventions before the performance and internal nuances that bring surprise and challenge such traditions.
KW - Shakespeare’s Globe
KW - Merry Wives of Windsor
KW - Henry VIII
KW - Habermas
KW - Public Sphere
U2 - 10.1080/17450918.2018.1439089
DO - 10.1080/17450918.2018.1439089
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
SP - 26
EP - 37
JO - Shakespeare
JF - Shakespeare
SN - 1745-0918
IS - 1
ER -