{"product_id":"the-acoustic-world-of-early-modern-england-attending-to-the-o-factor-paperback","title":"The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBruce R. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce R. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at Georgetown University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eHomosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e, published by the University of Chicago Press, and \u003ci\u003eThe Art and History of Washington, D.C.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 8.97 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42098530844752,"sku":"9780226763774","price":86.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/TE9HL0Y1SGcwc3FyeFl2dWpwMXdyZz09.webp?v=1771941626","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-acoustic-world-of-early-modern-england-attending-to-the-o-factor-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}