The Sound Of Shakespeare (accents On Shakespeare)

This book is about the role of sound in Shakespeare's art and about what it means for us centuries later. Wes Folkerth discovers the different aesthetic and ethical dispositions Shakespeare regularly associates with sound, including vulnerability, community, access to the deeply subjective or pre-articulated self, grotesque continuity and transformation, economies of free-flowing expenditure and ethical dispositions, such as obedience, assent and belief. References to sound and hearing abound throughout Shakespeare's plays, and by listening to Shakespeare himself listening, we derive a better understanding of why his works continue to resonate so strongly today.