Sound Effects by Laura Jayne Wright
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.-
Three Renaissance Travel Plays
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Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England John Lyly
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Three seventeenth-century plays on women and performance
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Sejanus
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Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays
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Drama of the English Republic, 1649–1660
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Shakespeare and authorial networks in early modern drama
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Massacres in Early Modern Drama
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Richard Brome
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Doing Kyd
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Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments
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Three Romances of Eastern Conquest
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John Lyly and Early Modern Authorship
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Three Renaissance Usury Plays
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The works of Richard Edwards
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Beyond The Spanish Tragedy
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Three sixteenth-century dietaries
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Marlowe and the Popular Tradition
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Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance
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John Fletcher's Rome
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Documents of the Rose Playhouse (Revised EDN)
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The Stukeley Plays
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Doctor Faustus
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Playhouse Wills
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Bussy d'Ambois
Laura Jayne Wright is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526159182 |
| ISBN 10 | 152615918X |
| Title | Sound Effects |
| Author | Laura Jayne Wright |
| Series | Revels Plays Companion Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2023-06-27 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |