The Sound of Shakespeare reveals the surprising extent to which Shakespeares art is informed by the various attitudes, beliefs, practices and discourses that pertained to sound and hearing in his culture. In this engaging study, Wes Folkerth develops listening as a critical practice, attending to the ways in which Shakespeares plays express their authors awareness of early modern associations between sound and particular forms of ethical and aesthetic experience. Through readings of the acoustic representation of deep subjectivity in Richard III, of the public ear in Antony and Cleopatra, the receptive ear in Coriolanus, the grotesque ear in A Midsummer Nights Dream, the greedy ear in Othello, and the willing ear in Measure for Measure, Folkerth demonstrates that by listening to Shakespeare himself listening, we derive a fuller understanding of why his works continue to resonate so strongly with is today.
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