TY - BOOK AU - Magnus,Laury AU - Cannon,Walter W. TI - Who hears in Shakespeare?: auditory worlds on stage and screen SN - 9781611474756 AV - PR3091 .W47 2012 U1 - 792.9/5 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Madison, NJ, Lanham, Md. PB - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rowman & Littlefield KW - Shakespeare, William, KW - Speech in literature KW - Listening in literature KW - Voice in literature KW - Oral communication in literature KW - Parole dans la littérature KW - Voix dans la littérature KW - Communication orale dans la littérature KW - PERFORMING ARTS KW - Theater KW - History & Criticism KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Film adaptations N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Why was the Globe round? / Andrew Gurr -- Guarded, unguarded, and unguardable speech in late Renaissance drama / James Hirsh -- Hearing complexity : speech, reticence, and the construction of character / Walter W. Cannon -- If this be worth your hearing : theorizing gossip on Shakespeare's stage / Jennifer Holl -- Mimetic hearing and meta-hearing in Hamlet / David Bevington -- Hearing and overhearing in The tempest / David Bevington -- Asides and multiple audiences in The merchant of Venice / Anthony Burton -- And now behold the meaning : audience, interpretation, and translation in All's well that ends well and Henry V / Kathleen Kalpin Smith -- Hearing power in Measure for measure / Bernice W. Kliman -- Hark, a word in your ear : whispers, asides, and interpretation in Troilus and Cressida / Nova Myhill -- Mutes or audience to this act : eavesdroppers in Branagh's Shakespeare films / Philippa Sheppard -- Overhearing Malvolio for pleasure or pity : the letter scene and the dark house scene in Twelfth night on stage and screen / Gayle Gaskill -- But mark his gesture : hearing and seeing in Othello's eavesdropping scene / Erin Minear N2 - This volume examines the ways in which Shakespeare's plays are designed for hearers as well as spectators and shows how Shakespeare's stagecraft, actualized both on stage and screen, revolves around various hearing conventions such as soliloquies, asides, eavesdropping, overhearing, and stage whispers. In short, Who Hears in Shakespeare? enunciates Shakespeare's nuanced, powerful stagecraft of hearing.