Introduction: Listening to Shakespeare's worlds of sound / Walter W. Cannon and Laury Magnus -- Sensory apprehension : speaking, hearing, and seeing on Shakespeare's stages. "Report me and my cause aright" : hearing the language of exhortation in Hamlet and King Lear / David Bevington -- Sound and sight, sound vs. sight in Hamlet / Laury Magnus -- Hearing and interfering : solving puzzles in theater productions of Measure for measure / Gayle Gaskill -- Hearing gone awry : mishearing, not hearing, and silence. Silence, mishearing, and indirection in Much ado / Caroline Latta -- Writing letters, hearing voices : epistolary error on Twelfth night / Walter W. Cannon -- Staging "skimble-skamble stuff" : 1 Henry IV and the Welsh voice / Megan Lloyd and Elizabeth Brown -- Hearing beyond words : Shakespear's noise, sounds, and music. Soundscape for an offstage beheading : Shakespeare's revision of 2 Henry VI 4.1 / Stephen Urkowitz -- "Fearful and confused cries" : birdsong, sympathy, and the fear of sounds in Titus Andronicus / Clio Doyle -- "They say it will penetrate" : music as aural violation in The two gentlemen of Verona and Cymbeline / R. W. Jones -- Hearing cues in Shakespeare : instrumental music and sound effects in the later plays / Jennifer Linhart Wood -- Restructuring audience at Shakespeare's globe / Lesli C. Dunn -- Voices from the Blackfriars stage. Voices from the Blackfriars stage : a virtual roundtable discussion from actors at the American Shakespeare Center: Benjamin Curns, Sarah Fallon, Allison Glenzer, John Harrell, James Keegan, Patrick Midgley -- Hearing on the Blackfriars stage : a coda / Ralph Alan Cohen. "Shakespeare's Auditory Worlds examines special listening situations like overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides. It explores complex relationships between sound and sight, dialogue and blocking, non-English languages, and nonverbal relationships inherent in noise, sounds, and music, ending with a discussion with ASC Actors"--
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