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Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds
Hearing and Staging Practices, Then and Now
Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds
Hearing and Staging Practices, Then and Now
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Inspired by the verbal exuberance and richness of all that can be heard by audiences both on and off Shakespeare’s stages, Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds examines such special listening situations as overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides. It breaks new ground by exploring the complex relationships between sound and sight, dialogue and blocking, dialects and other languages, re-voicings, and, finally, nonverbal or metaverbal relationships inherent in noise, sounds, and music, staging interstices that have been largely overlooked in the critical literature on aurality in Shakespeare. Its contributors include David Bevington, Ralph Alan Cohen, Steve Urkowitz, and Leslie Dunn, and, in a concluding “Virtual Roundtable” section, six seasoned repertory actors of the American Shakespeare Center as well, who discuss their nuanced hearing experiences on stage. Their “hearing” invites us to understand the multiple dimensions of Shakespeare’s auditory world from the vantage point of actors who are listening “in the round” to what they hear from their onstage interlocutors, from offstage and backstage cues, from the musicians’ galleries, and often most interestingly, from their audiences.
Table of Contents
Walter W. Cannon and Laury Magnus
Part I: Sensory Apprehension: Speaking, Hearing, and Seeing on Shakespeare's Stages
1“Report me and my cause aright”: Hearing the Language of Exhortation in Hamlet and King Lear
David Bevington
2Sound and Sight, Sound vs. Sight in Hamlet
Laury Magnus
3Hearing and Interfering: Solving Puzzles in Theater Productions of Measure for Measure
Gayle Gaskill
Part II: Hearing Gone Awry: Mishearing, Not Hearing, and Silence
4Silence, Mishearing, and Indirection in Much Ado
Caroline Latta
5Writing Letters, Hearing Voices: Epistolary Error in Twelfth Night
Walter W. Cannon
6Staging “Skimble-skamble stuff”: 1 Henry IV and the Welsh Voice
Megan Lloyd and Elizabeth Brown
Part III: Hearing Beyond Words: Shakespeare's Noise, Sounds, and Music
7Soundscape for an Offstage Beheading: Shakespeare's Revision of 2 Henry VI 4.1
Stephen Urkowitz
8“Fearful and confused cries”: Birdsong, Sympathy, and the Fear of So
Product details
| Published | Oct 27 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 306 |
| ISBN | 9781683932000 |
| Imprint | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Illustrations | 3 b/w photos; |
| Dimensions | 228 x 162 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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