TY - BOOK AU - Korneeva,Tatiana TI - The Dramaturgy of the Spectator: Italian Theatre and the Public Sphere, 1600–1800 T2 - Toronto Italian Studies SN - 9781487532086 AV - PN2672.A84 K67 2019 U1 - 792.0945 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Italian drama KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - To 1700 KW - Spectators KW - Italy KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Theater audiences KW - Psychology KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian KW - bisacsh KW - art KW - audience KW - drama KW - dramaturgy KW - history of the theatre KW - italian history KW - italian literature KW - italian theatre KW - literature KW - performance studies KW - public sphere KW - spectators KW - theatre studies N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Chronology of Italian Theatre, 1600–1800 --; Introduction --; 1. How Theatre Invents the Public Sphere --; 2. The Privileged Visibility of the Viewer --; 3. The Politics of Spectatorship --; 4. Public Emotions and Emotional Publics --; 5. Playwrights Fight Back --; 6. Liberty and the Audience --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - The Dramaturgy of the Spectator explores how Italian theatre consciously adjusted to the emergence of a new kind of spectator who became central to society, politics, and culture in the mid-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author argues that while a focus on spectatorship in isolation has value, if we are to understand the broader stakes of the relationship between the power structures and the public sphere as it was then emerging, we must trace step-by-step how spectatorship as a practice was rooted in the social and cultural politics of Italy at the time. By delineating the evolution of the Italian theatre public, as well as the dramatic innovations and communicative techniques developed in an attempt to manipulate the relationship between spectator and performance, this book pioneers a shift in our understanding of audience as both theoretical concept and historical phenomenon UR - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487532086 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487532086 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487532086/original ER -