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“Unnecessary Conversations”: Talking Sex in the Early Modern Polish Village
This chapter shows us how early modern Polish peasants used to discuss sex. Despite the rules of decorum, conversations about sex were still...
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“The Secret Sin That One Commits by Thought Alone”: Confession as Private and Public in Seventeenth-Century France
Investigating the theological implications of confessions as private conversations, this chapter delves into the debate between the Jesuit Denis...
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When Private Speech Goes Public: Libertinage, Crypto-Judaic Conversations, and the Private Literary World of Jean Fontanier 1621
This chapter explores the exceptional role of private conversations in the trial of Jean Fontanier, who stood accused of having written and taught...
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Shakespeare and Universalisation
This chapter argues how for centuries Shakespeare’s works have been an important source of inspiration for academics and practitioners alike, and...
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Introduction: The Praxis and Scope of Applied Shakespeare
This chapter introduces the reader to the praxis and scope of Applied Theatre as a performance practice. It draws upon theories and purposes relative...
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The Spatial Languages of Virtual Production: Critiquing Softwarization with Aesthetic Analysis
The chapter analyses the emergent practice of virtual production and the generation of in-camera visual effects (ICVFX), a process currently...
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“Kimigayo”: Japan’s National Anthem from a Global Historical Perspective
The idea of national anthem was peculiarly modern Western. When it was first introduced to Asia in the middle of the nineteenth century, it was...
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Camilla Herculiana (Erculiani): Private Practices of Knowledge Production
This chapter analyses the paratextual and epistolary rhetorical strategies connected with private practices of knowledge production used by the...
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The History of Prison Theatre
This chapter explores the history of theatre in prisons and the scope and expanse of applied work that uses the tools of theatre to engage the...
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Suggestions for Further Research
This chapter suggests areas for further reading, research, and investigation relative to the practice of Applied Theatre. The suggestions are...
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Subverting a Universally and Culturally Biased Shakespeare
This chapter suggests that while Shakespeare’s cultural significance, educational value, and national heritage make a strong case for his inclusion...
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“We Take Care of Our Own”: Talking about ‘Disability’ in Early Modern Netherlandish Households
This chapter investigates how people in the Netherlands talked about disability, poverty, and charity in the privacy of their homes in the sixteenth...
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Talking Privately in Utopia: Ideals of Silence and Dissimulation in Smeeks’ Krinke Kesmes (1708)
This chapter shows how reading a utopia from the perspective of social knowledge production can furnish new understanding of the practice of private...
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“Alone Amongst Ourselves”: How to Talk in Private According to the Cologne Diarist, Hermann von Weinsberg (1518–1597)
This chapter examines the diarist Hermann von Weinsberg’s descriptions of everyday conversations, which are incredibly revealing of the notions of...
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The History of Shakespeare and Disability Theatre
This chapter explores specific projects and/or performances that include the use of Shakespeare’s plays alongside Disabled communities. The projects...
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Shakespeare and Cultural Exclusion
This chapter acknowledges that whilst Shakespeare’s cultural influence is undeniable, there remain limitations to his work’s cultural influence. The...
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The Combat Veteran Players: A Case Study
This chapter aims to look specifically at the Combat Veteran Players’ (CVP) use of Shakespeare’s work within their own theatrical programme and how...
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Shakespeare’s Criminals, Criminal Shakespeare: A Renaissance Reading of Shakespeare and the Criminal Mind in Macbeth
This chapter analyses what lessons Shakespeare’s depiction of the criminal mind may be able to provide to participants of applied theatre projects...
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Artist and Agency: Technologies for Exploring Self and Place
This chapter explores how software-based compositional processes can be used to explore relationships between self and place. The process of creating...
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Dolby Atmos Music and the Production of Risk
The launch of Dolby Atmos in 2012 marked a significant development in commercial surround sound, allowing for audio to be positioned above as well as...