Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England

Allison Deutermann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Baruch College, City University of New York. She is the co-editor of Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature (MUP, 2013).

• 1. Introduction: Audiences to this Act; 2. Sound in Mind and Body: Hearing Early Modern Revenge Tragedy; 3. ‘Sprinkled among your ears’: Ben Jonson, John Marston, and the Cultivation of the Listening Connoisseur; 4. ‘Caviare to the general’?: Taste, Hearing, and Genre in Hamlet; 5. Listening for Form at the Cockpit Theater; 6. Epilogue; Bibliography.

A valuable contribution to the scholarship.