Dr. phil. Tatiana Korneeva

The Dramaturgy of the Spectator: Theatre, Audience, and the Public Sphere in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Italy

The project aims to provide compelling answers to questions concerning theatre audiences of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, their influence on theatrical discourses and the role of the spectator in eighteenth-century dramatic and aesthetic criticism. By defining and delineating the formation and evolution of the Italian theatre public from the mid-Seicento through the late Settecento, this book pioneers a shift in the way we think about the audience as both theoretical concept and historical phenomenon. More specifically, this study investigates and then moves beyond spectatorship per se to explore and analyze its reflexive relationship with social and cultural politics in Italy, especially as they concern sovereignty, power structures, and the emergent public sphere.

Korneeva, T. 2017. The Dramaturgy of the Spectator: Theatre, Audience, and the Public Sphere in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Italy. publisher tbc, forthcoming. Open Access Publication.

In November 2013, Tatiana Korneeva co-organized the DramaNet conference Dramatic Experience. She also organised the final DramaNet event on History and Drama in October 2016, together with J. Küpper and J. Drnovšek.
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