Who Hears in Shakespeare? : Shakespeare's Auditory World, Stage and Screen.
Title:
Who Hears in Shakespeare? : Shakespeare's Auditory World, Stage and Screen.
Author:
Bevington, David.
ISBN:
9781611474756
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Contents:
Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Shakespeare's Auditory World -- Part I: The Poetics of Hearing and the Early Modern Stage -- Chapter 01. Why Was the Globe Round? -- Chapter 02. Guarded, Unguarded, and Unguardable Speech in Late Renaissance Drama -- Chapter 03. Hearing Complexity -- Chapter 04. "If This Be Worth Your Hearing" -- Part II: Metahearing: Hearing, Knowing, and Audiences, Onstage and Off -- Chapter 05. Mimetic Hearing and Meta-Hearing in Hamlet -- Chapter 06. Hearing and Overhearing in The Tempest -- Chapter 07. Asides and Multiple Audiences in The Merchant of Venice -- Chapter 08. Negotiating Audiences -- Chapter 09. Hearing Power in Measure for Measure -- Chapter 10. "Hark, a Word in Your Ear" -- Part III: Transhearing: Hearing, Overhearing, Whispering, and Eavesdropping in Film and Other Media -- Chapter 11. "Mutes or Audience to This Act" -- Chapter 12. Overhearing Malvolio for Pleasure or Pity -- Chapter 13. "But Mark His Gesture" -- Afterword: Who Doesn't Listen in Shakespeare? -- Index -- Contributor Biographies.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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