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Title Who hears in Shakespeare? : auditory worlds on stage and screen / editors, Laury Magnus, Walter W. Cannon
Published Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 249 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Speech in literature.
Listening in literature.
Voice in literature.
Oral communication in literature.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
Listening in literature
Oral communication in literature
Speech in literature
Theater
Voice in literature
Genre/Form Film adaptations
Form Electronic book
Author Magnus, Laury
Cannon, Walter W., 1945-
ISBN 9781611474756
1611474752