Weathering Shakespeare : Audiences and Open-air Performance

O'malley, Evelyn; Garrard, Greg (EDT); Kerridge, Richard (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1350202444 / ISBN 13: 9781350202443

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Weathering Shakespeare : Audiences and Open-air Performance
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350202444
• ISBN 13: 9781350202443
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Winner of the ASLE-UKI 2022 Book Prize

From The Pastoral Players' 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary site-specific productions activist interventions, there is a rich history of open air performances of Shakespeare's plays beyond their early modern origins. Weathering Shakespeare reveals how new insights from the environmental humanities can transform our understanding of this popular performance practice. Drawing on audience accounts of outdoor productions of those plays most commonly chosen for open air performance – including A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest – the book examines how performers and audiences alike have reacted to unpredictable natural environments.

About the Authors

Evelyn O'Malley is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK.

Richard Kerridge is a nature writer and ecocritic who leads the MA in Creative Writing and co-ordinates research and postgraduate studies in English Literature and Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, UK. His works include: Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians (2014), J. H. Prynne's place-based poem-sequence The Oval Window, in collaboration with the late N. H. Reeve (2018), Writing the Enviornment (1998) and his other nature writing has been broadcast and published in BBC Wildlife, Poetry Review and Granta. He was awarded the 2012 Roger Deakin Prize by the Society of Authors, and has twice received the BBC Wildlife Award for Nature Writing. He was founding Chair of ASLE-UKI and has been an elected member of the ASLE Executive Council. With Greg Garrard he is co-editor of the Bloomsbury Academic series 'Environmental Cultures' – the first series of monographs in the Environmental Humanities to be published in Britain and he is a member of the steering committee of New Networks for Nature.

Greg Garrard is Associate Professor of Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of the bestselling book Ecocriticism (2nd edition, 2011) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism (2014).