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The Dramaturgy of the Spectator: Italian Theatre and the Public Sphere, 1600-1800

The Dramaturgy of the Spectator: Italian Theatre and the Public Sphere, 1600-1800

Korneeva, Tatiana

Hardcover

Series: Toronto Italian Studies

Literary CriticismTheater History

ISBN10: 1487505353
ISBN13: 9781487505356
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: May 24 2019
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The Dramaturgy of the Spectator explores how Italian theatre consciously adjusted to the emergence of a new kind of spectator who became central to society, politics, and culture in the mid-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author argues that while a focus on spectatorship in isolation has value, if we are to understand the broader stakes of the relationship between the power structures and the public sphere as it was then emerging, we must trace step-by-step how spectatorship as a practice was rooted in the social and cultural politics of Italy at the time. By delineating the evolution of the Italian theatre public, as well as the dramatic innovations and communicative techniques developed in an attempt to manipulate the relationship between spectator and performance, this book pioneers a shift in our understanding of audience as both theoretical concept and historical phenomenon.

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