Sound Effects: Hearing the Early Modern Stage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526159182)

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.

Author: Laura Jayne Wright
ISBN-10: 152615918X
ISBN-13: 9781526159182
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2023
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d