Scenes from Bourgeois Life (Theater: Theory/Text/performance) - Softcover

Buch 40 von 49: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Ridout, Nicholas

 
9780472039203: Scenes from Bourgeois Life (Theater: Theory/Text/performance)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0472039202 ISBN 13: 9780472039203
Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. In Nicholas Ridout’s formulation, this distance is produced and maintained at two different scales. First is the distance of the colonial relation, not just in miles between Jamaica and London, but also the social, economic, and psychological distances involved in that relation. The second is the distance of spectatorship, not only of the modern theatregoer as consumer, but the larger and pervasive disposition to observe, comment, and sit in judgment, which becomes characteristic of the bourgeois relation to the rest of the world. This engagingly written study of history, class, and spectatorship offers compelling proof of “why theater matters,” and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.  

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nicholas Ridout is Professor of Theatre at Queen Mary University of London. His many previous books include Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love.

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Verlag
The University of Michigan Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0472039202
ISBN 13 
9780472039203
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Anzahl der Seiten
224
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