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Sound Effects Hearing the Early Modern Stage - The Revels Plays Companion Library

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781526159182
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 792.024
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 442g
Height: 146mm
Width: 223mm
Spine width: 20mm