The Sound of Shakespeare

ISBN-13: 9780415253772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 160 str.

Wes Folkerth

Opis

This volume is about the role of sound in Shakespeare's art, about how he heard the world around him and about what it means for us to listen to him. It describes the kinds of things Shakespeare learned, through sound, about the early modern world he lived in and the people he shared it with. One of the primary goals of this book is to discover the different aesthetic and ethical dispositions Shakespeare regularly associates with sound, which include connections with vulnerability, community, access to the deeply subjective or pre-articulated self, grotesque continuity and transformation, economies of free-flowing expenditure, and related ethical dispositions such as obedience, receptivity, assent, and belief. We increasingly speak in terms of this very network of associations when we try to describe his genius to each other. References to sound and hearing recur throughout Shakespeare's plays, and by listening to Shakespeare himself listening, we derive a better understanding of why his works continue to resonate so strongly with us today.

Spis treści

General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Something of the Ripe Old Sounds The Shakespearean Sounsdcape 1. Shakespearience: Culture and Soundxtuality; Sounding Out Deep Subjectivity 2. The Public Ear: The Public Ear in Antony and Cleopatra ; The Doctrine is Sound; One of the Subtilist Pieces of Nature; An Explication of Certain Hard Problems about the Ears; And This is the True Manner of Hearing 3. Receptivity: Hearing in Shakespearean Cognition; The Receptive Ear in Coriolanus 4. Transformation and Continuity: Woordes with the Ground; A Reasonable Good Ear in A Midsummer Night's Dream ; The Grotesque Ear; Sound Economics: Excess, Surfeit, Stealing, Giving 5. Shakespearean Acoustemologies: The Greedy Ear in Othello ; The Willing Ear in Measure for Measure ; Then Play On Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Wes Folkerth is an Assistant Professor of English at McGill University.