The sound of Shakespeare
Wes Folkerth.
Bok Engelsk 2002 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (160 pages).
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Something of the ripe old sounds; The Shakespearean soundscape; 1 Shakespearience; Culture and sound | soundscape; Reading the soundscape: early modern playtextuality; Sounding out deep subjectivity; 2 The public ear; The public ear in Antony and Cleopatra; The doctrine is sound; One of the subtilest pieces of nature; 'An explication of certaine hard Problemes about the Eares'; 'And this is the true manner of hearing'; 3 Receptivity. - Hearing in Shakespearean cognitionThe receptive ear in Coriolanus; 4 Transformation and continuity; Woordes within the ground; A reasonable good ear in A Midsummer Night's Dream; The grotesque ear; Sound economics: excess, surfeit, stealing, giving; 5 Shakespearean acoustemologies; The greedy ear in Othello; The willing ear in Measure for Measure; Then play on; Notes; References; Index. - The 'Sound of Shakespeare' reveals the surprising extent to which Shakespeare's art is informed by the various attitudes, beliefs, practices and discourses that pertained to sound and hearing in his culture. In this engaging study, Wes Folkerth develops listening as a critical practice, attending to the ways in which Shakespeare's plays express their author's awareness of early modern associations between sound and particular forms of ethical and aesthetic experience. Through readings of the acoustic representation of deep subjectivity in Richard III, of the 'public ear' in An
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| Emner | Shakespeare, William, , 1564-1616 - Criticism and interpretation.
Sound in literature. Sounds in literature. |
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| ISBN | 0-415-25377-2. - 1-315-81199-5. - 1-317-79721-3
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