Shakespeare and Accentism
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Shakespeare and Accentism

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Shakespeare and Accentism

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This collection explores the consequences of accentism—an under-researched issue that intersects with racism and classism—in the Shakespeare industry across languages and cultures, past and present. It adopts a transmedia and transhistorical approach to a subject that has been dominated by the study of "Original Pronunciation." Yet the OP project avoids linguistically "foreign" characters such as Othello because of the additional complications their "aberrant" speech poses to the reconstruction process. It also evades discussion of contemporary, global practices and, underpinning the enterprise, is the search for an aural "purity" that arguably never existed. By contrast, this collection attends to foreign speech patterns in both the early modern and post-modern periods, including Indian, East Asian, and South African, and explores how accents operate as "metasigns" reinforcing ethno-racial stereotypes and social hierarchies. It embraces new methodologies, which includes reorienting attention away from the visual and onto the aural dimensions of performance.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
9781000295351
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism of Shakespeare
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Contributors
  10. Introduction: “The Accent of his Tongue Affecteth him”
  11. 1 “Accents yet unknown”: In Search of Shakespeare’s Foreign Accents
  12. 2 “The strangers’ case”: Accenting Shakespeare’s “ESL Characters”
  13. 3 All One Mutual Cry: The Myth of Standard Accents in Shakespearean Performance
  14. 4 How Should Shakespeare Sound?: Actors and the Journey from OP to RP
  15. 5 Accentism, Anglocentrism, and Multilingualism in South African Shakespeares
  16. 6 “What doth your speech import?” The Implication of Accents in Indian Shakespeares
  17. 7 “What country, friends, is this?”: The Indian Accent versus Received Pronunciation in Productions of Twelfth Night
  18. 8 “Rackers of Orthography”? Speaking Shakespeare in “Engrish”
  19. 9 Alien Accents: Signifying the Shakespearean Other in Audio Performances
  20. Afterword
  21. Index