Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9781474426084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str.

Allison Deutermann

Opis

This book traces the dialectical development of auditory modes over six decades of commercial theatre history, combining surveys of the theatrical marketplace with focused attention to specific plays .

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Audiences to this Act; 2. Sound in Mind and Body: Hearing Early Modern Revenge Tragedy; 3. ‘Sprinkled among your ears’: Ben Jonson, John Marston, and the Cultivation of the Listening Connoisseur; 4. ‘Caviare to the general’?: Taste, Hearing, and Genre in Hamlet; 5. Listening for Form at the Cockpit Theater; 6. Epilogue; Bibliography.