Who hears in Shakespeare? : auditory world, stage and screen / editors, Laury Magnus, Walter W. Cannon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Magnus, Laury.

Cannon, Walter W., 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech in literature.

Listening in literature.

Voice in literature.

Oral communication in literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison,NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume examines the ways in which Shakespeare's plays are designed for hearers as well as spectators and shows how Shakespeare's stagecraft, actualized both on stage and screen, revolves around various hearing conventions such as soliloquies, asides, eavesdropping, overhearing, and stage whispers. In short, Who Hears in Shakespeare? enunciates Shakespeare's nuanced, powerful stagecraft of hearing. </sp

Contents:

Why was the Globe round? / Andrew Gurr

Guarded, unguarded, and unguardable speech in late Renaissance drama / James Hirsh

Hearing complexity : speech, reticence, and the construction of character / Walter W. Cannon

If this be worth your hearing : theorizing gossip on Shakespeare's stage / Jennifer Holl

Mimetic hearing and meta-hearing in Hamlet / David Bevington

Hearing and overhearing in The tempest / David Bevington

Asides and multiple audiences in The merchant of Venice / Anthony Burton

And now behold the meaning : audience, interpretation, and translation in All's well that ends well and Henry V / Kathleen Kalpin Smith

Hearing power in Measure for measure / Bernice W. Kliman

Hark, a word in your ear : whispers, asides, and interpretation in Troilus and Cressida / Nova Myhill

Mutes or audience to this act : eavesdroppers in Branagh's Shakespeare films / Philippa Sheppard

Overhearing Malvolio for pleasure or pity : the letter scene and the dark house scene in Twelfth night on stage and screen / Gayle Gaskill

But mark his gesture : hearing and seeing in Othello's eavesdropping scene / Erin Minear.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-68393-883-6

1-280-65952-1

9786613636454

1-61147-475-2

OCLC:

775872945