Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction: An Invitation; Spectatorship; Theatricality and Performance; The Edwardian; Modernist Teleology; 2 Characterising the Audience; Characterising the Critic, Artist and Viewer; Scripting Spectatorship; Self-Conscious Performance; 3 Spectatorship and Ekphrasis; Affect-Oriented Ekphrasis; The Embodied Spectator; Imaginative Space; 4 Staging Spectatorship; The Auditorium; Lyricism, Self-Projection and Emotional Response; The Unknown God; 5 Staging Art; Art in the Theatre; Active Spectatorship; Disinterested Commercialism

6 Domesticity, Decoration and Role PlayImmersive Experience; A Drawing Room Rendezvous; Individual Expression; 7 Conclusion; Index