Attention to Theatrical Performances

Authored by: James Hamilton

The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance, and Cognitive Science

Print publication date:  September  2018
Online publication date:  September  2018

Print ISBN: 9781138048898
eBook ISBN: 9781315169927
Adobe ISBN:

10.4324/9781315169927-23

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Abstract

How do audiences attend to theatrical performances? An account of attention is useful to theatre and performance studies for the obvious reason that attention is the necessary first step for coming to an understanding of how audiences grasp and respond to a performance.

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