Book contents
- Shakespeare’s Accents
- Shakespeare’s Accents
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Conventions
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘Accents Yet Unknown’: The Changing Soundscape of Shakespeare in Contemporary Performance
- Chapter 2 ‘Lend Me Your Ears’: Experiments with Original Pronunciation
- Chapter 3 David Garrick’s ‘Sonic Revolution’: Hegemony and Protest, 1737–1843
- Chapter 4 ‘Usual Speech’ and ‘Barbarous Dialects’ on the Early Modern Stage
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2020
Book contents
- Shakespeare’s Accents
- Shakespeare’s Accents
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Conventions
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘Accents Yet Unknown’: The Changing Soundscape of Shakespeare in Contemporary Performance
- Chapter 2 ‘Lend Me Your Ears’: Experiments with Original Pronunciation
- Chapter 3 David Garrick’s ‘Sonic Revolution’: Hegemony and Protest, 1737–1843
- Chapter 4 ‘Usual Speech’ and ‘Barbarous Dialects’ on the Early Modern Stage
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The introduction explains why the topic of this book is timely, how other scholars have started to investigate the materiality and the modulations of the voice as a process through which national, regional, social and personal identities are constantly (re)constituted. The introduction also explains the need to reconstruct past attitudes to national, regional and class accents in Shakespearean performance in order to gain a historical perspective and a better grasps of the politics that inform the production and reception of marked, or inflected, voices in Shakespeare in contemporary performance.
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- Shakespeare's AccentsVoicing Identity in Performance, pp. 1 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020