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Sound effects: Hearing the early modern stage

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Abstract

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.


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Author(s): Wright LJ

Publication type: Authored Book

Publication status: Published

Series Title: Revels Plays Companion Library

Year: 2023

Number of Pages: 249

Online publication date: 27/06/2023

Acceptance date: 31/08/2021

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Place Published: Manchester

URL: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526159199

DOI: 10.7765/9781526159199

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

ISBN: 9781526159199


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