Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres : Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back

Omtale

Debunks stereotypes about blindness, in which readers, receivers and spectators from antiquity to the present have been implicated because their persistence relies on audiences to perpetuate them. Argues for a new way of seeing – and of understanding classical reception - using assemblage-thinking and with a focus on the theatre.