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Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres

by Marchella Ward
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781009372770
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 312
  • Original Price: USD 116.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 586 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient / General

The use of disability as a metaphor is ubiquitous in popular culture - nowhere more so than in the myths, stereotypes and tropes around blindness. To be 'blind' has never referred solely to the inability to see. Instead blindness has been used as shorthand for, among other things, a lack of understanding, immorality, closeness to death, special insight or second sight. Although these 'meanings' attached to blindness were established as early as antiquity, readers, receivers and spectators into the present have been implicated in the stereotypes, which persist because audiences can be relied on to perpetuate them. This book argues for a new way of seeing - and of understanding classical reception - by offering assemblage-thinking as an alternative to the presumed passivity of classical influence. And the theatre, which has been (incorrectly) assumed to be principally a visual medium, is the ideal space in which to investigate new ways of seeing.

Ward, Marchella: - MARCHELLA WARD is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University. Until recently she was the Access Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. She also co-convenes the Critical Ancient World Studies collective, and writes frequently for non-specialists and also for children.

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