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9780226763774

The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226763774

  • ISBN10:

    0226763773

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-05-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

We know how a Shakespeare play sounds when performed today, but what would listeners have heard within the wooden "O" of the Globe Theater in 1599? What sounds would have filled the air in early modern England, and what would these sounds have meant to people in that largely oral culture? In this ear-opening journey into the sound-worlds of Shakespeare's contemporaries, Bruce R. Smith explores both the physical aspects of human speech (ears, lungs, tongue) and the surrounding environment (buildings, landscape, climate), as well as social and political structures. Drawing on a staggeringly wide range of evidence, he crafts a historical phenomenology of sound, from reconstructions of the "soundscapes" of city, country, and court to detailed accounts of the acoustic properties of the Globe and Blackfriars theaters and how scripts designed for the two spaces exploited sound very differently. Critical for anyone who wants to understand the world of early modern England, Smith's pathbreaking "ecology" of voice and listening also has much to offer musicologists and acoustic ecologists.

Author Biography

Bruce R. Smith is professor of English at Georgetown University. He is author of Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics, published by the University of Chicago Press, and The Art and History of Washington, D.C.


Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Around
Opening
3(27)
Mapping the Field
30(19)
The Soundscapes of Early Modern England: City, Country, Court
49(47)
Re: Membering
96(34)
Some Propositions Concerning O
130(3)
2 Within
Games, Gambols, Gests, Jests, Jibes, Jigs
133(35)
Ballads Within, Around, Among, Of, Upon, Against, Within
168(38)
Within the Wooden O
206(40)
Circling the Subject
246(41)
3 Beyond
Listen, Otherwise
287(56)
Works Cited 343(24)
Index 367

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