EMSAH Research Seminar - Watching as Reading: the Audience and Written Text in Shakespeare's Playhouse
Event Details
- Date:
- Friday, 28 July 2006
- Time:
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Room:
- 437
- UQ Location:
- Michie Building (St Lucia)
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Mrs Vicky McNicol
- Phone:
- 51412
- Email:
- v.mcnicol@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Communication and Arts
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Too often the belief in widespread illiteracy throughout early modern London leads to certain facts being ignored - facts about the highly literate, bookish spectators that were so often to be found in the London playhouses. This paper will address the role of printed books in the public theatre, considering how they were regularly read in the playhouse and, indeed, were also sold there. Next it will turn to literate members of the audience, asking how commonplace books were used in the playhouse and to what extent performed text was immediately turned back into writing. Finally, it will discuss the way the theatre pandered to and used that reading audience: how the stage, hung about with words written on large boards, inscribed itself, encouraging readers to view it as, always, a semi-textual space.
About the Presenter:
Tiffany Stern, MA, MPhil, PhD, is a Lecturer in English Literature, Oxford University, and Tutor in English Literature, University College, Oxford. Dr Stern specialises in Shakespeare, theatre history from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, book history and editing. Her monographs are Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (Clarendon Press), and Making Shakespeare (Routledge); with Simon Palfrey she is co-authoring Shakespeare in Parts (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). She has also edited King Leir for Globe Quartos (Routledge) and Sheridan’s The Rivals (New Mermaids, A & C Black); her articles and chapters explore theatrical and editorial concerns of the early modern period.
Dr Stern’s current project is to complete a monograph, The Fragmented Playtext in Shakespearean England (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). She is also editing George Farquhar’s Recruiting Officer (New Mermaids, A & C Black), Brome’s Jovial Crew (Arden Early Modern Drama), and Shakespeare’s Merry Wives (Barnes and Noble). She is a general editor of the New Mermaids play series, and is on the editorial board of the forthcoming RSC Complete Works of Shakespeare and the journals Review of English Studies, Shakespeare and Shakespeare Yearbook.
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