Who Hears in Shakespeare?

Shakespeare's Auditory World, Stage and Screen
Herausgeber: Magnus, Laury; Cannon, Walter W.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9781611474749
• ISBN-10: 1611474744
• Artikelnr.: 34105445

Autorenporträt

Laury Magnus is professor of humanities at the US Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, New York. Her books include Lexical and Syntactic Repetition in Modern Poetry and her New Kittredge Editions of Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, and Measure for Measure. Her essays and reviews appear in The Shakespeare Newsletter, Literature and Film Quarterly, Connotations, Assays, and College Literature. Her chapter on "Shakespeare on Film and Television" appears in The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare. Walter W. Cannon is professor of English at Central College in Pella, Iowa, where he teaches early modern literature, including Shakespeare and his contemporaries. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Upstart Crow, Theatre History Studies, and Cahiers Élisabéthains. His chapter "The Poetics of Indoor Spaces" appears in Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Laury Magnus and Walter W. Cannon Part I. The Poetics of
Hearing and the Early Modern Stage Chapter 1: Why Was the Globe Round? by
Andrew Gurr Chapter 2: Guarded, Unguarded, and Unguardable Speech in late
Renaissance Drama by James Chapter 3: Hearing Complexity: Speech,
Reticence, and the Construction of Character by Walter . Cannon Chapter 4:
"if this be worth your hearing": Theorizing Gossip on Shakespeare's Stage
by Jennifer Holl Part II. Metahearing: Hearing, Knowing, and Audiences,
Onstage and Off Chapter 5: Mimetic Hearing and Meta-hearing in Hamlet by
Laury Magnus Chapter 6: Hearing and Overhearing in The Tempest by David
Bevington Chapter 7: Asides and Multiple Audiences in The Merchant of
Venice by Anthony Burton Chapter 8: "And Now Behold the Meaning": Audience,
Interpretation, and Translation in All's Well That Ends Well and Henry V by
Kathleen Kalpin Smith Chapter 9: Hearing Power in Measure for Measure by
Bernice W. Kliman, Chapter 10: "Hark, a word in your ear": Whispers,
Asides, and Interpretation in Troilus and Cressida by Nova Myhill Part III.
Transhearing:  Hearing, Overhearing, Whispering, and Eavesdropping in Film
and Other Media Chapter 11: "Mutes or Audience to this Act": Eavesdroppers
in Branagh's Shakespeare Films by Philippa Sheppard Chapter 12: Overhearing
Malvolio for Pleasure or Pity: The Letter Scene and the Dark House Scene in
Twelfth Night on Stage and Screen by Gayle Gaski Chapter 13: "But Mark His
Gesture": Hearing and Seeing in Othello's Eavesdropping Scene by Erin
Minear Afterword: Who Doesn't Listen in Shakespeare? by Stephen Booth