Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Sphere(s)

by Katja Gvozdeva, Tatiana Korneeva, Kirill Ospovat

In Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Sphere(s) Katja Gvozdeva, Tatiana Korneeva, and Kirill Ospovat (eds.) focus on a fundamental question that transcends the disciplinary boundaries of theatre studies: how and to what extent did the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience among both theatregoers and readers of drama contribute, during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, to the emergence of symbolic, social, and cultural space(s) we call public sphere(s) ? Developing a post-Habermasian understanding of the public sphere, the articles in this collection demonstrate that related, if diverging, conceptions of the public existed in a variety of forms, locations, and cultures across early modern Europe and in Asia."

328 pages, Hardcover

Published October 7, 2016