Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Something of the Ripe Old Sounds The Shakespearean Sounsdcape 1. Shakespearience: Culture and Soundxtuality; Sounding Out Deep Subjectivity 2. The Public Ear: The Public Ear in Antony and Cleopatra ; The Doctrine is Sound; One of the Subtilist Pieces of Nature; An Explication of Certain Hard Problems about the Ears; And This is the True Manner of Hearing 3. Receptivity: Hearing in Shakespearean Cognition; The Receptive Ear in Coriolanus 4. Transformation and Continuity: Woordes with the Ground; A Reasonable Good Ear in A Midsummer Night's Dream ; The Grotesque Ear; Sound Economics: Excess, Surfeit, Stealing, Giving 5. Shakespearean Acoustemologies: The Greedy Ear in Othello ; The Willing Ear in Measure for Measure ; Then Play On Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Wes Folkerth is an Assistant Professor of English at McGill University.