Wright Sound effects

Hearing the early modern stage
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5919-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Revels Plays Companion Library

Blending theatre history and sensory studies this book recaptures the sound of early modern drama, acknowledging its intangibility while attempting to both describe those sounds heard on the stage and to try and identify those sound’s effects on the playgoers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Laura Jayne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Follow the noise

1 Soundgrams on stage: sonic allusions and commonplace sounds
2 Hearing the night: nocturnal scenes and unsound effects
3 The head and the (play)house: bodies and sound in Ben Jonson
4 'Unheard’ and ‘untold’: the promise of sound in Shakespeare
Conclusion

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Jayne Wright is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University