Shakespeare for Free: The Accessibility and Politics of Audio Shakespeare in Anglo-American Contexts
摘要
Focusing on performances of Shakespeare in which there are no visuals at all, this chapter examines Anglo-American radio productions of Shakespeare. It documents some of the tools and techniques (including music, sound effects, textual editing and adaptation, and the vocal talents of voice actors) that have been used to bring audio Shakespeare to a wide audience of listeners, as well as the politics involved in doing so. In particular, the chapter shows that while radio Shakespeare has often been intended and assumed to be a way of making Shakespeare accessible to everyone, questions of whether and how it achieves this remain.