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Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England
Allison Deutermann
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Electronic book text. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Early modern drama was in fundamental ways an aural art form. How plays should sound and how they should be heard were questions vital to the formal development of early modern drama, and particularly to two of its most popular genres: revenge tragedy and city comedy. Simply put, theatregoers were taught to hear these plays differently. Revenge tragedies by William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd imagine sound stabbing, piercing and slicing into listeners' bodies on and off the stage; while comedies by Ben Jonson and John Marston imagine it being sampled selectively and according to taste. Listening for Theatrical Form in ... Read more
Early modern drama was in fundamental ways an aural art form. How plays should sound and how they should be heard were questions vital to the formal development of early modern drama, and particularly to two of its most popular genres: revenge tragedy and city comedy. Simply put, theatregoers were taught to hear these plays differently. Revenge tragedies by William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd imagine sound stabbing, piercing and slicing into listeners' bodies on and off the stage; while comedies by Ben Jonson and John Marston imagine it being sampled selectively and according to taste. Listening for Theatrical Form in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474426084
SKU
V9781474426084
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About Allison Deutermann
Allison Deutermann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Baruch College, City University of New York.
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A valuable contribution to the scholarship.
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