The play's only part of the thing: audience response to pastiche historical drama.
Responding to the view that pastiche is an empty and inert practice, this project explores whether pastiche historical dialogue can elicit reflective and affective responses. Besieged, a pastiche of a typical play of the 1640s, chronicles the historical events of the Siege of Portsmouth in 1642. It...
| Publicado en: | Rethinking History Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 75 - 101 |
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