Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres

Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back

Ward, Marchella

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 assemblagethinking and with a focus on the theatre.
Desacredita los estereotipos sobre la ceguera, en los que se ha implicado a lectores, receptores y espectadores desde la antigüedad hasta la actualidad porque su persistencia depende de que el público los perpetúe. Defiende una nueva forma de ver -y de entender la recepción clásica- utilizando el pensamiento ensamblador y centrándose en el teatro.