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Acknowledgements |
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How to Read This Book |
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Introduction: Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance |
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Theories of Theatrical Co-presence and Technologies of Performance |
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A Spatial Theory of Technologically Mediated Spectatorship for Early Modern Drama: Locus, Platea and Offstage Obscenity |
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The Platea and the Offstage in the Digital Age |
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Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance |
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PART I CANDLELIGHT AND ARCHITECTURE AT THE SAM WANAMAKER PLAYHOUSE |
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Being `True to the Architecture' of a Jacobean `Smart Space': Access, Physical Regimes and Enskilling the Audience |
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1 Dominic Dromgoole's The Changeling (2015): Social Division and Anamorphic Vision |
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(In)visible Labour and the Discovery Space |
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Anamorphic Sex in the Closet |
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2 Dominic Dromgoole's The Tempest (2016): Labour, Technology and the Gender of Theatrical Magic |
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Perspective! Magic and the Model Spectator: Prospero's Tempest |
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`Feeling-Technologies' and the Upper Gallery: Ariel's Tempest |
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Backstage Technicians and Eccentric Lords: The Tempest as Technical Labour |
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PART II DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND EARLY MODERN DRAMA AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE AND THE RSC |
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3 Stanislavski in the Closet: Joe Hill-Gibbins' Edward II (National Theatre, 2013) |
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The Changeling as `Stressor': Obscene Dramaturgy and Stanislavski's `Backstories' |
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The Torture Live Cam: The Voyeuristic Violence of Subject Technologies |
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4 `Tech-Enabled' Theatre at the RSC: Digital Performance and Gregory Doran's Tempest (RSC, 2016) |
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Digital Innovation and Social Media Performances at the RSC: Such Tweet Sorrow (2010), A Midsummer Night's Dreaming (2013) and Volpone (2015) |
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`Future Practices' at the RSC: Gregory Doran's `Tech-Enabled' Tempest (2016) |
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Face-to-Face with the Cyborg: The Crisis of Tech-Enabled Theatre |
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Coda: From Live Performance to Archive |
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PART III `INVISIBLE' TECHNOLOGY AND `LIVENESS' IN DIGITAL THEATRE BROADCASTING |
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5 Hamlet in Parts: Robin Lough's RSC Live Cinema Broadcast of Simon Godwin's Hamlet (8 June 2016) |
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Broadcast-as-Performance: Context, Geopolitical `Backstory' and Process |
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Hamlet in Pans: Telling the Story for a Cinema Audience |
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Technologies of Race: Unconscious Bias in Camera Design and Lighting |
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6 Offstage Dynamics and the Virtual Public Sphere in Cheek by Jowl's Live Stream of Measure for Measure (2015) |
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Control, Response-Ability and the Virtual Public Sphere |
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Framing and Re-framing Isabella in the Technological Setup of the Live Stream |
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Concluding Most Obscenely: Offstage Technophelias |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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