Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays

Kent Lehnhof is Professor of English at Chapman University, where he has received the university's highest award for scholarship and its highest award for teaching. He has co-edited two essay collections, Of Levinas and Shakespeare (2018) and Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre (2023), and has published two dozen articles and essays.

• Introduction: the sound of the voice; 1. Bodies and voices in Coriolanus; 2. Tricks of the voice in King Lear; 3. Seeing and speaking in Pericles; 4. Phone and female mourning in the winter's tale; 5. Voicing authority in the tempest; Selected bibliography; Index.

'Addressing the power and presence of the human voice on stage, Lehnhof shows how acts of speaking, hearing, and listening disrupt our egoism and open us to more authentic connections with others. Enunciating the multivocal wisdom of Shakespearean drama, this book will be accessible to both advanced scholars and students of literature.' Julia Reinhard Lupton, Distinguished Professor of English, The University of California, Irvine