Building Publics: The Early History of the New York Shakespeare Festival

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dc.contributor.advisorHildy, Franklin Jen_US
dc.contributor.authorSheaffer, Adamen_US
dc.contributor.departmentTheatreen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-17T06:05:12Z
dc.date.available2018-07-17T06:05:12Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explores the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater’s earliest history, with a special focus in the company’s evolving use of the rhetoric and concept of “public.” As founder Joseph Papp noted early in the theater’s history, they struggled to function as a “private organization engaged in public work.” To mitigate the challenges of this struggle, the company pursued potential audiences and publics for their theatrical and cultural offerings in a variety of spaces on the cityscape, from Central Park to neighborhood parks and common spaces to a 19th century historic landmark. In documenting and exploring the festival’s development and perambulations, this dissertation suggests that the festival’s position as both a private and public-minded organization presented as many opportunities as it did challenges. In this way, company rhetoric surrounding “public-ness” emerged as a powerful strategy for the company’s survival and growth, embodied most apparently by their current moniker as The Public Theater.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2599Z49F
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/20926
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTheater historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPublic policyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledJoseph Pappen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOff-Broadwayen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPublicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledShakespeare Performanceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUrban Parksen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUrban Renewalen_US
dc.titleBuilding Publics: The Early History of the New York Shakespeare Festivalen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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