The Reasonable Audience : Theatre Etiquette, Behaviour Policing, and the Live Performance Experience
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 162969652
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-319-99166-5
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783319991658
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 50,000-word monograph combines performance studies with discourse analysis and draws on and critiques a wide range of literature to explore the recent trend of ‘theatre etiquette’: an audience-led crusade to bring ‘manners and respect’ back to the auditorium. It studies the rhetorical power of language in theatre etiquette debates, examining how arguments for better behaviour collaborate in an attempt to demarcate the boundaries of appropriateness. With relevance beyond contemporary theatre-going, it uses the debates as a way into exploring wider issues of social participation, cultural exclusion, and the politics of identity within public space.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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