Sonia Massai (King's College London)

Shakespeare's Accents

Voicing Identity in Performance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the vocal dimensions of Shakespearean performance, this book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage, as well as theatre performance and voice studies students, and to theatre artists and funders interested in enhancing inclusion and diversity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781108454612
• ISBN-10: 1108454615
• Artikelnr.: 64103549

Autorenporträt

Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King's College London and has published widely on the history of the transmission of Shakespeare on the stage and on the page. Her publications include World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance (2005), Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (Cambridge, 2007), collections of essays on Ivo van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie (2018), Shakespeare and Textual Studies (Cambridge, 2015) and critical editions of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (2011) and The Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 (Cambridge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Accents yet unknown': the changing soundscape of Shakespeare in
contemporary performance; 2. 'Lend me your Ears': experiments with original
pronunciation; 3. David Garrick's 'sonic revolution': hegemony and protest,
1737¿1843; 4. 'Usual speech' and 'barbarous dialects' on the early modern
stage.