Jane Austen’s Emma (1815) is a novel preoccupied with perspective. The heroine, Emma Woodhouse, “handsome, clever, and rich,” consistently misreads social situations while remaining blind to her own heart. Traditional single-actor casting requires the performer to oscillate between charm and folly. However, Double View Casting splits these functions. This technique allows the audience to witness Emma not as a unified subject but as a field of tension between how she wishes to be seen and how she truly appears .
