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Title:

Shakespeare's auditory worlds : hearing and staging practices, then and now / edited by Laury Magnus and Walter W. Cannon.

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ;

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.
Communication in literature.
Listening in literature.
Speech in literature.
Sound in literature.
Theaters--History.--History.
Communication in literature.
Listening in literature.
Sound in literature.
Speech in literature.
Theater.
Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.
History.

Other Authors:

Magnus, Laury, editor.
Cannon, Walter W., 1945- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Listening to Shakespeare's worlds of sound / Walter W. Cannon and Laury Magnus -- Sensory apprehension : speaking, hearing, and seeing on Shakespeare's stages. "Report me and my cause aright" : hearing the language of exhortation in Hamlet and King Lear / David Bevington -- Sound and sight, sound vs. sight in Hamlet / Laury Magnus -- Hearing and interfering : solving puzzles in theater productions of Measure for measure / Gayle Gaskill -- Hearing gone awry : mishearing, not hearing, and silence. Silence, mishearing, and indirection in Much ado / Caroline Latta -- Writing letters, hearing voices : epistolary error on Twelfth night / Walter W. Cannon -- Staging "skimble-skamble stuff" : 1 Henry IV and the Welsh voice / Megan Lloyd and Elizabeth Brown -- Hearing beyond words : Shakespear's noise, sounds, and music. Soundscape for an offstage beheading : Shakespeare's revision of 2 Henry VI 4.1 / Stephen Urkowitz -- "Fearful and confused cries" : birdsong, sympathy, and the fear of sounds in Titus Andronicus / Clio Doyle -- "They say it will penetrate" : music as aural violation in The two gentlemen of Verona and Cymbeline / R. W. Jones -- Hearing cues in Shakespeare : instrumental music and sound effects in the later plays / Jennifer Linhart Wood -- Restructuring audience at Shakespeare's globe / Lesli C. Dunn -- Voices from the Blackfriars stage. Voices from the Blackfriars stage : a virtual roundtable discussion from actors at the American Shakespeare Center: Benjamin Curns, Sarah Fallon, Allison Glenzer, John Harrell, James Keegan, Patrick Midgley -- Hearing on the Blackfriars stage : a coda / Ralph Alan Cohen.

Summary:

"Shakespeare's Auditory Worlds examines special listening situations like overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides. It explores complex relationships between sound and sight, dialogue and blocking, non-English languages, and nonverbal relationships inherent in noise, sounds, and music, ending with a discussion with ASC Actors"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Shakespeare and the stage

ISBN:

1683932005
9781683932000

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1164123937

LCCN:

2020035538

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)