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Sound Effects: Hearing the Early Modern Stage

Sound Effects: Hearing the Early Modern Stage - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Laura Jayne WrightSeries:Revels Plays Companion LibraryPublish date:2023-06-27Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526159182ISBN-10:152615918XUPC:9781526159182Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Renaissance, Modern, DramaBook Topic:17th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SCNW4WP47E
This book shows that the sounds of the early modern stage do not only signify but are also significant. Sounds are weighted with meaning, offering a complex system of allusions. Playwrights such as Jonson and Shakespeare developed increasingly experimental soundscapes, from the storms of King Lear (1605) and Pericles (1607) to the explosive laboratory of The Alchemist (1610). Yet, sound is dependent on the subjectivity of listeners; this book is conscious of the complex relationship between sound as made and sound as heard. Sound effects should not resound from scene to scene without examination, any more than a pun can be reshaped in dialogue without acknowledgement of its shifting connotations. This book listens to sound as a rhetorical device, able to penetrate the ears and persuade the mind, to influence and to affect.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526159182ISBN-10:152615918XUPC:9781526159182Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Renaissance, Modern, DramaBook Topic:17th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SCNW4WP47E
Laura Jayne Wright is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University
Publisher: Manchester University Press

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