Contents: On Genre and Corporeality – The Body Double and Female Tragedy: Medea – Smell-bodies: Tragic Masculinity in a Postcolonial King Lear – Performativity and Desire in the Romance Plot: Miss Julie – The Rhetoric of Organs without Bodies: Genesi: The Museum of Sleep – On Watching Tragedy.
The Author: Rachel Fensham is Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies at the University of Surrey and Visiting Research Fellow at Monash University. Her research interests lie in the terrain between cultural aesthetics and politics, particularly in relation to creative processes and their reception. Her publications include works on performance theory, feminist and postcolonial theatre, as well as studies of cultural history and policy. Current research projects include mapping transnational and crosscultural choreographies in Australia and archival research on women as modern dance pioneers in the UK.
«As it stands, ‘To Watch Theatre’ will appeal to scholars and students interested in the four texts/performances Fensham takes up in her central chapters, as well as to scholars working on the relationships among affect, audience experience and performance theory. [...] ‘To Watch Theatre’ offers a useful addition to the emerging literature on audience, embodiment and emotion.» (Kim Solga, Contemporary Theatre Review)
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