Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century: Communities of Sentiment by McGillivray, Glen

Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century: Communities of Sentiment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031228988)

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Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century: Communities of Sentiment by McGillivray, Glen

Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century: Communities of Sentiment

$129.99
Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century: Communities of Sentiment by McGillivray, Glen

Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century: Communities of Sentiment

$129.99
Format: Hardcover
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This book offers an innovative account of how audiences and actors emotionally interacted in the English theatre during the middle decades of the eighteenth century, a period bookended by two of its stars: David Garrick and Sarah Siddons. Drawing upon recent scholarship on the history of emotions, it uses practice theory to challenge the view that emotional interactions between actors and audiences were governed by empathy. It carefully works through how actors communicated emotions through their voices, faces and gestures, how audiences appraised these performances, and mobilised and regulated their own emotional responses. Crucially, this book reveals how theatre spaces mediated the emotional practices of audiences and actors alike. It examines how their public and frequently political interactions were enabled by these spaces.

Author: Glen McGillivray
ISBN-10: 3031228987
ISBN-13: 9783031228988
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/21/2023
Pages: 223
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d
By Glen McGillivray
By Glen McGillivray
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Glen McGillivray is Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He was an associate investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, and his research focuses on the intersection between emotions and performance.

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