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'Engaging Audiences' provides an insightful introduction to spectatorship from the perspective of cognitive studies. Using performances of several plays and a wide array of scientific evidence, McConachie examines the dynamics of conscious attention, mental concepts, empathy, emotion, and culture in theatregoing. This ground-breaking study challenges many of the current theories used to understand spectators and is a valuable resource to artists and scholars interested in how and why audiences enjoy performance.

Theater audiences. --- Theater audiences --- Theater and society. --- Sémiotique et théâtre --- Théâtre et société --- Publics --- Sémiotique et théâtre --- Théâtre et société --- Cognitive psychology --- Theatrical science --- Theater --- Psychology. --- Philosophy. --- Semiotics. --- Théâtre --- Psychologie --- Philosophie

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The middle years of the nineteenth century were a time of dynamic artistic and social changes in America. Now, Melodramatic Formations is the first study to trace these changes in popular stage melodrama's production, dramatic form, and audience reception. Bruce McConachie shows how the theatrical mutability that characterized the years 1820 to 1870 is inextricably tied to the decline of elite paternalism and republicanism and the rise of bourgeois rationalism and respectability. Taking a rigorous interdisciplinary approach, McConachie examines several historical regularities of production, ge

American drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism. --- Melodrama, American -- History and criticism. --- Theater -- United States -- History -- 19th century. --- Theater and society -- United States.

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This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies - with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas - the book sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach. Following a comprehensive introduction, the contributors examine: the interfaces between cognitive studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, phenomenology and communication theory; different ideas from cognitive studies that open up the meanings of several plays; the process of acting and the work of Antonio Damasio; and, theatrical response - the dynamics of perception, and the riots that greeted the 1907 production of "The Playboy of the Western World". This original and authoritative work will be attractive to scholars and graduate students of drama, theatre, and performance.

Theater --- Cognition. --- Théâtre --- Cognition --- Psychological aspects. --- Aspect psychologique