The sound of Shakespeare

Resource Information

The work The sound of Shakespeare represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The sound of Shakespeare

Statement of responsibility

Wes Folkerth

Creator

• Folkerth, Wes, 1964-
• Folkerth, Wes, 1964-

Subject

• Sound in literature
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Technique
• Sounds in literature
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Technique.

Language

eng

Summary

"The Sound of Shakespeare reveals the surprising extent to which Shakespeare's art is informed by the various attitudes, beliefs, practices and discourses that pertained to sound and hearing in his culture." "In this study, Wes Folkerth develops listening as a critical practice, attending to the ways in which Shakespeare's plays express their author's awareness of early modern associations between sound and particular forms of ethical and aesthetic experience. Through readings of the acoustic representation of deep subjectivity in Richard III, of the 'public ear' in Antony and Cleopatra, the receptive ear in Coriolanus, the grotesque ear in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the 'greedy ear' in Othello, and the 'willing ear' in Measure for Measure, Folkerth demonstrates that by listening to Shakespeare himself listening, we derive a fuller understanding of why his works continue to resonate so strongly with us today."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Accents on Shakespeare

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

PR2997.S75

LC item number

F65 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Accents on Shakespeare