Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why was the Globe round? / Andrew Gurr -- Guarded, unguarded, and unguardable speech in late Renaissance drama / James Hirsh -- Hearing complexity : speech, reticence, and the construction of character / Walter W. Cannon -- If this be worth your hearing : theorizing gossip on Shakespeare's stage / Jennifer Holl -- Mimetic hearing and meta-hearing in Hamlet / David Bevington -- Hearing and overhearing in The tempest / David Bevington -- Asides and multiple audiences in The merchant of Venice / Anthony Burton -- And now behold the meaning : audience, interpretation, and translation in All's well that ends well and Henry V / Kathleen Kalpin Smith -- Hearing power in Measure for measure / Bernice W. Kliman -- Hark, a word in your ear : whispers, asides, and interpretation in Troilus and Cressida / Nova Myhill -- Mutes or audience to this act : eavesdroppers in Branagh's Shakespeare films / Philippa Sheppard -- Overhearing Malvolio for pleasure or pity : the letter scene and the dark house scene in Twelfth night on stage and screen / Gayle Gaskill -- But mark his gesture : hearing and seeing in Othello's eavesdropping scene / Erin Minear.

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